Members of Technology Student Association chapters at McDougle and Smith middle schools and Chapel Hill and Carrboro high schools participated March 7 in the Central/Southwest Regional TSA Conference at Richmond Senior High in Rockingham. A number of students from the four schools won competitions in various categories.
Winners from McDougle Middle include: Chris Rupert, third place, career challenge; Kendall Harkey, third place, graphic design challenge; Harkey and Leah Westendorf, second place, structural engineering; Austin Slydel, first place, electrical applications; Dunmi Alabi, Chris Chiesa, Daniel Kaplan, John O’Regan, Manoj Paladugu and Westendorf, first place, chapter team; Alabi, Chris Chiesa, Nikita Ermoshkine, Paladugu and Westendorf, first place video challenge. McDougle’s sponsor is Redmond Grigg.
Winners from Smith Middle included: Luke Shaw, third place dragster design challenge and third place problem solving. Luke’s sponsor is Ray Martin.
Winners from Chapel Hill High include: Anna Geer, third place, promotional graphics; Arjun Ajmani, second place, extemporaneous presentation; Matt Zeman, second place, prepared presentation; and Sean Burke and Peter Noone, second place, technology problem solving. The CHHS sponsor is Redmond Grigg.
Winners from Carrboro High include: Andriy Rusyn, third place, extemporaneous presentation; and Natalie Carpenter and Christian Persico, first place, technology problem solving. The CHS sponsor is Zoltan Nagy.
Winners will compete at the 29th Annual North Carolina TSA State Conference in Greensboro April 13-15.
Smith Middle School Latin teacher Great Moseley has been selected to attend the Classical Summer School program at the American Academy in Rome and Cumae June 16 through August 9.
The first part of the workshop will take place in Rome, while the “Vergilian Society†portion will take place in Cumae. As a participant, Moseley will study historical and archaeological sites throughout Italy and will acquire resources for her classroom.