HCPSSHoward County Public School Students Excel in National MESA Competitions
July 6th, 2015
Middle school students from Howard County Public School System took home honors at the MESA USA national engineer design competition at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, on June 19, 2015. The students designed a prosthetic arm that can throw and pick up objects. Weber State University and the Utah MESA team hosted the competition to help students use critical thinking, creativity and teamwork to develop an engineering-based solution to modern problems.
Lake Elkhorn Middle School students Swarna Velumani, Varsha Velumani, Kiana Wambi, and Nile Rankin-Watson tied for third place with their oral presentation and earned second place for their technical paper and presentation.
The team from Lake Elkhorn Middle School had previously taken first prize at the state-level Maryland State Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement (MESA) competitions in May. Winning that event qualified them for the national competition.