1st Place at Shell STEM Showdown!
- jennifernorthern
- Sep 24, 2016
- 2 min read
The IPAA/PESA Petroleum Academy at Southwest High School (IPAS) freshmen students
earned first place in the Shell STEM Showdown at the University of Houston on September 23, 2016. This competition is a nationally acclaimed Science Technology Engineering and Math
(STEM) education awareness program, powered by Great Minds in STEM™. The students
completed a full day of hands-on STEM-related activities alongside college students from the
University of St. Thomas. Exciting activities included building two cranes that could physically
transfer cargo from one crane to another, and a rover challenge where students optimized code and designed a rover robot to autonomously navigate a specified course. Southwest High
School’s Academy was awarded $3,500 and a trophy. A medal was given to each student for
their overall outstanding performance on the two challenges, as well as on their ability to work
well with their mentor students from the university.
The first place winners are pictured accepting their trophy and medals. The students are
Nicholas Farr, Daniel Martinez, Carlos Martinez, Jacob Vitela, Kei’shon Hawkins, Tung Pi,
Daniel Kombe, Jailen Guptin, Dedrick Legan, Reymundo Lopez, Jacobey Watson, Martin
Rangel, Ja’don Tate, Jalen Clayton, Kody Bounds, Brett Walters, Esau Luna Rendon, Waylin
Fogarty, Kaliyia Boyd, Jaqueline Yohana Estrada, Isabella Diaz, Jatieya Davis, Jillian Norrell
and Esther Feld.
The Southwest High School students were divided into groups of eight, as were the students from competing schools. Groups competed against each other in each of two challenges.
One of the Southwest teams won third place in the small group competition and were awarded bluetooth JBL speakers. Also pictured are the students who won prizes: Nicholas Farr, Daniel Martinez, Carlos Martinez, Jacob Vitela, Martin Rangel, Jalen Clayton, Kody Bounds and Ja’Don Tate.
Congratulations freshmen IPAS students! You make us proud!
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