Pennsylvania Students Place Third in National Competition
3/23/2009
Eagle One, the Pennsylvania state Real World Design Challenge Champions from Cumberland Valley High School in Mechanicsburg, competed against State Champions from the other 9 states that participated in the 2009 Challenge and returned home with the Third Place Trophy.
The national competition, held at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC on March 20-22, 2009, provided the students a chance to present a modified version of their state-level winning designs to a panel of expert judges which included Dave Brant, Cessna Aircraft Company; Mary Cleave, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Dr. John D. Evans, Lockheed Martin Corporation; Joyce Malyn Smith, Ed.D., Education Development Center; Robert E. Mansfield, Jr., USAF, Retired; Dr. Donald Senich, National Science Foundation; and John D. Stuart, Parametric Technology Corporation.
Eagle One team members Cody Ambrose, Kyle Gochenaur, Vladimir Grinevich, Jeffrey Pope, and coach Michael Flowers won a contribution of $1,000 to their school’s science/technology department, a Real World Design Challenge Trophy and a model of the Cessna Mustang aircraft, provided by the Cessna Aircraft Company.
The team from Newburyport, Massachusetts won second place and the grand champions were from Iolani School in Honolulu, Hawaii.
The Real World Design Challenge is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, in partnership with Parametric Technology Corporation, Cessna Aircraft Company, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the States of Connecticut, Hawaii, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington.
