Environmental/Agricultural Innovation

The Environmental/Agricultural Innovations category is intended to provide

a means of sharing environmentally and/or agriculturally innovative ideas.
These ideas may be new products, procedures, and inventions.
Today we had 9 students presenting 5 projects. And the winners are:

School Names

1st place SMS Jude Souder

London King

2nd place WMS Phoenix Court

6th Grade

3rd place NONE

1st place SMS Jake Frizzelle

Landon Barb

2nd place SMS Rece Braziel

7th Grade Carson Biller

3rd place NONE

1st place SMS Adriana Shields

Kalen Murphy

2nd place NONE

8th Grade

3rd place NONE

Invention
An invention is a new device, contrivance, process, or an improvement on
an existing machine or product that solves a real or perceived problem or
need.
Today we had 53 students presenting 29 projects. And the winners are:

School Names

1st place SMS Addyson Mooney

Mia McLaughlin

2nd place SMS Landon Yoder

6th Grade

3rd place SDMS Maggie Henderson

Lydia Monroe

1st place WMS Lydia Daley

Kierstyn Pierce

2nd place WMS Elijah Barton

7th Grade Ronin Tabler

3rd place BMMS Andrew Rathburn

1st place SMS Emmett Souder

Kyler Yoder

2nd place WMS Kameryn Vanlandingham

8th Grade Catherine Sullivan

3rd place BMMS Alexis Kimble

Ailena Kwiecinski
Reverse Engineering
Reverse Engineering is the process of discovering the technological
principles of a device, object, or system through analysis of it structure,
function, and operation.
Today we had 91 students presenting 54 projects. And the winners are:

School Names

1st place WMS Lucas Acker

2nd place WMS Eli Irving

6th Grade Cameron Johnson

3rd place WMS Nathan Ilunga

1st place BMMS Makarah Hollinger

2nd place SMS Abby Driscoll

7th Grade Casey Craun

3rd place SMS David Covington

Coen Clinedinst

1st place SMS Marissa Powell

Laura Miller

2nd place SDMS Dawson Melton

8th Grade

3rd place SMS Meghan Jones

Olivia Schuhmann
Robotics & Computer Science
A robot is a mechanical agent that can perform tasks automatically.
Similarly computer science is the design of software that can perform tasks.
Computer software and robots can both be operated automatically
(autonomous), semi-autonomous, or remotely controlled. Both computers
and robots are designed to be used for one or more specific purposes.
Today we had 15 students presenting 11 projects. And the winners are:

School Names

1st place SDMS Isabel Misick

2nd place SMS Campbell Cooke

6th Grade Kaillum Messick

3rd place SDMS Taylor Rexrode

1st place WMS Joseph Childress

Timothy Cole

2nd place WMS Charlette VanFossen

7th Grade

3rd place WMS Cassidy Plautz

1st place SDMS Jonathan Walker

2nd place SDMS Sam Lorenz

8th Grade

3rd place NONE

Rube Goldberg
A Rube Goldberg assembly, contraption, invention, device, or apparatus is
a deliberately over-engineered or overdone machine that performs a very
simple task in a very complex fashion, usually in a chain reaction. The
category is named for American cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg
(1883-1970)
Today we had 54 students presenting 33 projects. And the winners are:

School Names

1st place SDMS Anna Callo

2nd place WMS Will Wright

6th Grade Jayden Saunders

3rd place SMS Kaylee Dolan

Haylee Smiley

1st place SMS Waverly McDavid

Bethany Lang

2nd place WMS John Parrish

7th Grade Carter Sanders

3rd place WMS Ryan Denton

Lance Heishman

1st place SDMS Zoe Perry

Sophia Clark

2nd place SDMS Aiden Clark

8th Grade

3rd place WMS Brendan Reid

Scientific Inquiry
The Scientific Inquiry category requires students to use higher order
thinking skills as they learn science through using a hands-on, minds-on
approach. This is the basic experimentation category, where a question is
asked, a hypothesis is created, an investigation is performed, and a
conclusion is reached.
Today we had 108 students presenting 66
projects. And the winners are:

School Names

1st place WMS Madelyn Fitzgerald

Charlotte Sprouse

2nd place WMS Grayson Jordan

6th Grade Logan Chandler

3rd place BMMS Mason Mays

1st place SMS Wyatt Marshall

2nd place BMMS Haden Toler

7th Grade Hunter Showhalter

3rd place SMS Martha Lambert

Tessa Burgess

1st place SDMS Steven Ramsey

2nd place SDMS Brady Bell

8th Grade

3rd place WMS Lauren Fisher

Jiya Madhani
The Best in Show for the 2019 STEM Expo is awarded
to the project titled:

Trash Dump

Zoe Perry (8th Grade)

Sophia Clark (8th Grade)

Stuarts Draft Middle School

2019 ACPS Middle School STEM Expo Winners