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The Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS) held its regional high school competition on February 27th. Sixteen Allderdice students, chaperoned by chemistry teacher Sally Martin, competed in the junior varsity and varsity divisions, placing first in both. The Junior Varsity team tied with the second place varsity winners from Fox Chapel. The competition itself was comprised of eighty complex math and science questions. In the morning, teams used knowledge and teamwork to answer several multiple-choice questions about topics such as radioactivity, hurricanes, and stress capacity of steel. After a break, the competition resumed and teams completed critical thinking problems related to topics from the morning session. The results from the tests were scored regionally, and are currently being scored at the national level. “If you do well in this region, you usually do well nationally,” said Martin, who believes that the western Pennsylvania region is one of the strongest when it comes to science. “Allderdice’s team did better than some suburban schools like Fox Chapel and North Allegheny. These are some talented kids.” The competition stressed knowledge, accuracy, and teamwork. “We teamed up in pairs to work on each of the open-ended questions,” said junior Blake Barnett, a member of the junior varsity team. “The morning questions were more ‘plug-and-chug’ because they were multiple choice, so it wasn’t as hard.” One of the real problems had to do with worst- case scenarios for hurricanes. “We had to develop a protective wall for hurricanes,” said senior Jack Turban. Junior Jacquet Kehm attributes the JETS team’s success to excellent teamwork. “We worked really well together. At one point in the afternoon, some of us experienced a caffeine crash, but other than that we did really well.” According to Martin, JETS is one of Allderdice’s strongest science teams. It is also one that students seem to enjoy most.
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JETS Team Wins Regional Competition |
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