Shell STEM Showdown Safety Award

The IPAA/PESA Petroleum Academy at Southwest High School (IPAS) freshmen and senior students earned the safety award in the Shell STEM Showdown at the University of Houston on September 29, 2017. 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 4 robotic arms and a rocket. One of the Southwest High School’s Academy teams was awarded the safety award. Each member on the winning team received a virtual reality headset. Congratulations to Megan Prater, Diana Gomez Ramos, Elizabeth Ingram, Michael Luckie, Cameron Waites, Andrew Campos, Symillian Neely-La Roda and Aasish Sanyasi (pictured below). In addition to this team winning an award all three teams were lauded for their maturity and ability to work well with their college student mentors.