Page 14 THE EVERETT ADVOCATE – FRiDAy, JunE 14, 2024 ~ Excellence in the EPS ~ EHS STEM Club Competes in Ten80 Event Competition takes students to the famed Charlotte Motor Speedway T he Everett High School (EHS) STEM Club traveled to the Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina to compete in the Ten80 Student Racing Competition and the Ten80 Automated Vehicle Competition, a two-day event defi ned by innovation in motion featuring students from around the country. EHS fi elded two teams (14 students total) in the multi-event competition on April 26, 2024, giving students a high-visibility chance to showcase their engineering, robotics, public speaking and graphic design skills. Even better, the famed Charlotte Motor Speedway served as the backdrop for the students to race their Picture This … EHS students create cyanotypes at Monserrat E HS STEM Academy students had the prestigious E HS art students took a fi eld trip to the Montserrat College of Art in Beverly on Friday, March 3, enjoying a campus tour and a “cameraless” workshop led by Photo and Video Chair Ron DeRito. Cameraless photos are created by manipulating light, radiation and/or chemicals to leave an impression on photo-sensitive paper. During the workshop, Professor DeRito taught the EHS students how to create “cyanotypes” by laying an object on paper coated with a solution of iron salts, exposing it to UV light and washing it with water to create striking white and blue images. Following the workshop, Professor DeRito and the students critiqued the work. The day was capped with a catered lunch. The Everett Public Schools thanks Monserrat for hosting two “Studio Days” specifically for EHS students during the 2023-2024 school year. honor of displaying and discussing their work at the Massachusetts Applied Learning Showcase at the TRACK at new balance on Friday, May 10. Nearly 1,000 students and 400 industry partners gathered to celebrate innovative work and creative ideas. Everett’s students discussed their team projects with STEM professionals and received real-world, applicable feedback. Three groups from Dr. Anna Seiders’ Engineering Design and Development capstone course presented their senior projects. A fourth group, students in Dr. Seiders’ Principles of Engineering and Civil Engineering and Architecture class, also participated. Highlights included: • Seniors Kirtsy Hall and Gurkiran Kaur presented their capstone project. The pair developed a solution to reduce micropipette tip waste, a problem they fi rst thought about in an EHS biotechnology class. Their invention was modeled on a salad spinner that included a part made with a 3D printer; the device holds micropipette tips, which are cleaned by a spinning device and bleach solution. • Seniors Nilabhro Pal, Emerson Pineda Chacon and Fausto remote-control and electric-powered cars and promote their racing teams. “ These students have worked so hard over the past several weeks and been so resilient,” said Dr. Anna Seiders, who co-advises the STEM Club with Dr. Christopher Backlund. “What they have accomplished in a short time, other teams spend years doing.” The competition featured teams from around the country and as far away as China. Both of Everett’s two teams fi nished in the Top 10 overall standings. EHS finished fi rst in the Graphic Design category and second in Robotics. The EHS STEM Club, pictured from left to right: Back row: Dr. Anna Seiders, Gurkiran Kaur, Randy Cruz Villanueva, Jeff erson Carballo Morales, Anthony Masucci, Berlens Beaubrun, Vinicius Correa, Donart Maksutaj, Michael Lemus Solis and Dr. Christopher Backlund; front row: Brianna Del Orbe, Kirtsy Hall, Romy Ortiz Romero, Makenzie Powers, Alexander Angulo and Kelly St. Fort. “The students cheered on other teams regardless of their results,” Dr. Seiders said. “They cheered extra loud for our international friends from China; when they won, it sounded like we won! They were so selfl ess in their cheering and encouragement. When other teams needed Applied Science! EHS students showcase their work to industry leaders help, they would drop their project to go help, they traded parts with other teams, and formed friendships with various groups of students.” The EHS team, pictured from left to right: Dr. Christopher Backlund, juniors Gisselle Beltran Gonzalez and Abegail Musto, senior Kirtsy Hall, sophomore Josue Lara, seniors Nilabhro Pal, Fausto Paniagua, Emerson Pineda Chacon and Sushant Shrestha, sophomore Gabriel Portillo Flores and Dr. Anna Seiders. Paniagua presented their work on making biodegradable golf balls. They designed a kit that would allow golfers to make golf balls out of 100% biodegradable materials. • Seniors Sushant Shrestha and Simran Tamang identifi ed air pollution in Nepal as a serious problem that aff ects the daily lives of residents, in the form of increased asthma and lung-related health problems. In response, they developed a window screen that uses activated carbon to help reduce the air particles passing through a window. This, in turn, decreases exposure to harmful PM2.5 particles. • Sophomores Gabriel Flores and Josue Lara showcased the robot they made during a Project Lead The Way Principles of Engineering course. Participating students were tasked with creating a robot to compete against other robots in tugof-war. Gabriel and Josue’s robot has proven tough to beat, as it pulls approximately 20 Newtons and can drag a heavy backpack across the ground.
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