The Seminole Ridge High School SECME club — which includes students interested in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology — competed in the School District of Palm Beach Countys engineering Olympiad against 13 other high schools on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at John I. Leonard High School. Seminole Ridge would like to congratulate the club for its victories. This year's theme was " Thinking Out of the Box and in the Communications: Banner competition, third place went to Natanya Robinson, Charleen Thome, Emily Rattray and Frank Desanti. In the Communications: Poster competition, honorable mention went to Frank Desanti.
In this annual Olympiad, students square off in engineering contests to design and build mousetrap-powered cars, water bottle rockets, and balsa wood bridges; in general knowledge games with Brain Bowl, and in literary and artistic competitions with essays, mission patches, banners and posters.
In the category of Balsawood Bridge Building, William Hoppells structure held 3.6 pounds before breaking. In the category of Water Bottle Rocket, the Red Team launched their rocket, which was airborne for 6.5 seconds; the Silver Teams was airborne for five seconds. In the category of Mousetrap Vehicle, A.J. Fandreys car went 15 feet. Fandrey, Stephaine Rodgerson, and Kyle Shippley showcased their VEX robotics engineering projects Tumbler and Protobot.
Seminole SECME captain Kaitlin Kilpatrick and coordinators Mr. Erich Landstrom and Mr. Edward Batchelor thank the club for a great job.
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