Tech Connect - Cloud Computing 2010

Work actually began six weeks earlier when the teams received their assignments.

There were a number of categories, with competitors coming from Arizona, Nevada, California, Texas, Hawaii and even Mexico.

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The Arizona winners and their categories
included:
• Winner No. 3: Red Mountain High
School in Mesa and Boeing.
•FIRST Dean’s List Finalist Award: Thomas
Zokowski of Flagstaff

•Finalist No.2: Queen Creek High School, YESCO, American Society Mechanical Engineers, Magma Engineering Co., Russ’ True Value, Boeing, NASA and Interstate Batteries.

•Finalist No.3: Bioscience High School in Phoenix, Science Foundation Arizona and Stardust Foundation.

•Finalist No.4: Tucson High Magnet School, NASA and JC Penney.

•FIRST Dean’s List Finalist: Tyler
Burrough of Buckeye.

Game Face

Students are serious in competitions
designed to use STEM skills

he Next Generation gave
much hope for the future
when students from across
the state competed in
competitions designed to test
their skills in science, technology, education
and mathematics.

Middle School Science Bowl

Eighteen teams competed for the 2010 Middle School Science Bowl, an academic competition in which question and answer matches about science and math are followed by round robin and double elimination tournaments.

Sanctioned by the Department of Energy’s National Science Bowl, the contest was held on March 6 at Arizona State University’s main campus in Tempe. It was organized by members of the Arizona Technology Council’s Workforce Development Committee and other local community leaders.

Coming out on top were: •First Place: BASIS Scottsdale Team Number Two, which included Nithin Kannan, Stanley Lee, Thomas Marks, Sahar Panjwani and Adithya Rajan.

•Second Place: Madison Park Middle School of Phoenix, which included Jacob Browning, Kyle Chapman, Justin Hegyi, Emily Nesbitt and Ethan Pierson.

The BASIS Scottsdale team will represent Arizona at the National Science Bowl in Washington, D.C., in May.

FIRST Robotics Competition

The Arizona Regional FIRST Robotics Competition is actually just one of the many held around the world. It teams professionals and young people to solve an engineering design problem in an intense and competitive way. Of course, the idea is for everyone to have fun, too.

This year’s event was held March 12-13 at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix.

Arizona Science
and Engineering Fair

Arizona Science and Engineering Fair offered a chance for students from across the state to present their research in an arena that identifies the success of every student and recognition of their efforts. This year’s event was held March 22-25 at the Phoenix Convention Center, with the Arizona Technology Council serving as a key organizer.

The fair promotes the concept of project-based learning (Learn Science by Doing Science) and the development of science process skills as part of students’ regular educational experience. In addition, onsite training, curriculum and resources are provided to participating schools, teachers and students.

Medals were awarded to the top projects in elementary and junior high school divisions. In the high school division, those students selected for Grand Awards receive all-expense paid trips to represent the Arizona Science and Engineering Fair at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.