Delaware TSA students earn 20 Top 10 national honors
Members of the Delaware Technology Student Association recently brought home top honors from the 34th annual National Technology Student Association Conference in Nashville. Eighty students competed in 110 individual and 65 team competitive events, such as: CAD engineering, fashion design, on demand video, promotional graphics, manufacturing prototype, structural engineering, technical sketching and application, flight endurance, video game design, inventions & innovations, leadership strategies and more.
National competitive results
1st Place – System Control Technology, Red Clay Consolidated’s Cab Calloway School of the Arts
4th Place – Transportation Modeling, Jessica Harris of Seaford’s Seaford High School
5th Place – Techno Talk, Caesar Rodney’s Postlethwait Middle School
5th Place – CAD 3D, Engineering, Aaron Stark of Caesar Rodney’s Caesar Rodney High School
5th Place – Career Comparisons, Pratyusha Gupta of Caesar Rodney’s Caesar Rodney High School
5th Place – On Demand Video, Red Clay Consolidated’s Cab Calloway School of the Arts
6th Place – Digital Photography, Johnny Bui of Caesar Rodney’s Postlethwait Middle School
7th Place – Challenging Technology Issues, Caesar Rodney’s Postlethwait Middle School
7th Place – Techno Talk, Caesar Rodney’s Postlethwait Middle School
7th Place – Desktop Publishing, Claudia Geissler of Delmar’s Delmar High School
7th Place – Promotional Graphics, Reilly Megee of Red Clay Consolidated’s Cab Calloway School of the Arts
8th Place – Essays on Technology, Rachel Grunden of Caesar Rodney’s Caesar Rodney High School
8th Place – Manufacturing Prototype, Brandywine’s Concord High School
9th Place – Music Production, Brandywine’s Mount Pleasant High School
10th Place – Problem Solving, Red Clay Consolidated’s Conrad Schools of Science
10th Place – Promotional Design, Kathryn Hartley of Caesar Rodney’s Postlethwait Middle School
10th Place – Video Game Design, Caesar Rodney’s Postlethwait Middle School
10th Place – Debating Technological Issues, Brandywine’s Concord High School
10th Place – Fashion Design, Delmar’s Delmar High School
10th Place – Music Production, Brandywine’s Concord High School
Participating Delaware schools included:
Alexis I. du Pont High School – Red Clay Consolidated School District
Cab Calloway School of the Arts – Red Clay Consolidated School District
Caesar Rodney High School – Caesar Rodney School District
Concord High School – Brandywine School District
Delmar High School – Delmar School District
Gauger-Cobbs Middle School – Christina School District
Conrad Schools Of Science – Red Clay Consolidated School District
Mount Pleasant High School – Brandywine School District
Postlethwait Middle School – Caesar Rodney School District
Seaford Senior High School – Seaford School District
Springer Middle School – Brandywine School District
Sussex Central High School – Indian River School District
Conference honors and highlights
- Pratyusha Gupta of Caesar Rodney High School led the conference as the president of the National Technology Student Association.
- Delaware TSA was honored for raising nearly $86,403 for the American Cancer Society
- The American Cancer Society recognized Brandywine School District’s Mount Pleasant High School and P.S. duPont Middle School with Purple Awards for raising more than $40,000 each. Brandywine’s Concord High School received the Platinum Award for raising more than $500.
- Steven Vanderloo of Concord TSA was honored with the Dr. Bob Hanson Distinguished Student Award
- Jordan Estock and Richard Alexandre were named Chapter Advisors of the Year
- Caesar Rodney High School and Conrad Schools of Science were awarded Chapter Excellence honors
- Monideepa Chatterjee, Pratyusha Gupta, Jennifer Marshall, Robert Onufrovich, Bridgette Spritz, Matthew Taylor and Steven Vanderloo were inducted into the Technology Honor Society
For more information about the National Technology Student Association (TSA), please visit the homepage at www.tsaweb.org or contact Lynda Haitz at lhaitz@tsaweb.org. TSA is a non-profit organization with 150,000 members. Its goal is to promote technological literacy and leadership. Students learn problem-solving, decision-making and critical thinking skills as they relate to technology. For more information about the Delaware Technology Student Association, please visit the homepage at www.detsa.org or contact the Delaware TSA State Advisor Mike Fitzgerald at mfitzgerald@doe.k12.de.us or (302) 857-3334.
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