Newswise — Students from St. Mark’s School of Texas in Dallas and William P. Clements High School in Sugar Land have been named “Best in State” winners in Texas in the Junior Engineering Technical Society’s (JETS) 31st annual TEAMS engineering competition for 2010. This year, they tackled one of the world’s most pressing problems – the global water shortage, highlighted recently by the Haiti earthquake.
Houston-based Shell Oil Company is a major sponsor of JETS’ TEAMS competition nationally and in Texas at the University of Houston’s event.
The Dallas students were named the top ranked 9/10 grade level team, while those from Sugar Land took the top 11/12 grade level rank. As “Best in State” winners the two teams receive medals and certificates, and will now vie for top national honors as “Best Overall” teams to be announced later in April. These teams will receive $2,500 for their schools and the top ranked 11/12 grade team will receive a three-night stay at the Walt Disney World Resort.
The Dallas students worked on their water challenges at the University of Texas, Dallas, on February 17. The Sugar Land students gathered at University of Houston on February 12.
Themed, “Water, Water Everywhere,” the competition demonstrated to the more than 10,000 participating students around the country how engineers in various disciplines, including environmental engineers, civil engineers, and mechanical engineers are involved in the protection and delivery of the world’s water supply.
“We want to congratulate our “Best in State” winners in Texas. TEAMS, like all of JETS’ programs, is designed to show today’s students just how important engineers in the various disciplines are to solving society’s problems,” said Peter Carrato, Bechtel Corporation Fellow and Immediate Past President of the Board of Directors of JETS. “While this year’s theme of water was selected last year, it couldn’t have been more relevant to the students, given the news they have watched from Haiti as people struggle to find clean, drinkable water.”
Each year, JETS, through its TEAMS competition, provides students in grades nine through 12 with the opportunity to make real-world connections between math and science to engineering by solving actual engineering scenarios. For more information about TEAMS and other JETS engineering programs for America’s high school students, please visit www.JETS.org.
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