Teams from Powell, Laramie and Wheatland high schools won their respective divisions in a statewide engineering problem-solving contest at the University of Wyoming.
There were four winners for Part I of the competition. Powell placed
first in the Small School Varsity, Wheatland placed first in the Small
School Junior Varsity, and Laramie placed first in both the Large School
Varsity and Large School Junior Varsity. Part II is scored nationally
and scores are not yet determined.
Each year, the UW College of Engineering and Applied Science hosts the
JETS/TEAMS (Junior Engineering Technical Society/Tests of Engineering
Aptitude, Mathematics and Science) competition. High school students
across the state compete as teams in an open-book, two-part
collaborative problem-solving test. Nationwide, more than 20,000 high
school students participate each year.
JETS promotes interest in engineering, science, mathematics, and
technology, and is dedicated to providing real-world engineering and
problem-solving experience to high school students. The programs
challenge students to discover engineering in high school. JETS programs
and resources get students involved with engineering and preparing for
the future.
Members of the first-place Powell varsity are Matt Cain, Lyle Coguill,
Preston Eckerdt, Scott Kitchen, Tyler McIntosh, Trude Mingus, Ben
Norberg and Kenny Smith. Thom Miller and Russ Schwahn are the team's
coaches.
Members of the first-place Wheatland junior varsity are Ty Boettcher,
Kyle Lenz, Lance Sanderson and Tyler Lower. The team's coach is Peggy
Jones.
Members of the first-place Laramie varsity are Dan Barker, Mike Poulos,
Stephen Michel, Chris Jenkins, Josh McConnell, Marshall Moore, Han Li
and Srihari Sritharan. The first-place Laramie junior varsity members
are Stephen Bagley, Colin Longhurst, Charles Ogden, Eric Parish, Sara
Peck, Rebecca Thorseness, Jacob VanBaalen and Jesse Zhou.
The coach for the Laramie teams is Pete Kontaxes.
