OIT Times: High School Engineering Challenge Winners

March 26, 2001

Ten student teams and their sponsors were honored for their winning solutions to the High School Engineering Challenge. This unique and exciting nationwide competition asks students to solve multi-disciplinary problems using team-development strategies and higher-order thinking skills. Approximately 2,000 teams of talented U.S. high school students from across the nation participate in the annual competition. Each team addresses real engineering problems in an open-book, open-discussion team environment. The winners were as follows:

Industry of the Future	Winning High School
Agriculture (tie)	Strath Haven High School, Wallingford, PA Wootton High School, Rockville, MD
Aluminum	Rehoboth Christian High School, Rehoboth, NM
Chemicals	Suncoast High School, Riviera Beach, FL
Forest Products	Central Academy, Des Moines, IA
Glass	Oklahoma School for Science & Mathematics, Oklahoma City, OK
Metal Casting	Arts and Sciences Academy, Saginaw, MI
Mining	Clayton High School, Clayton, MO
Petroleum	Washington High School, Cherokee, IA
Steel	Lake Mary High School, Lake Mary, FL