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American Student-Built Rocket Wins International Contest.
A small rocket built by a team of American students from Pennsylvania soared into first place in an international contest held Friday in Farnborough, England – helping the students become the first U.... --7/24/2010
High School Students Race Solar Cars Across Country.
High school teams from across the nation drove through Lubbock Monday in solar powered cars. It was all part of an 800 mile race from Dallas, Texas to Boulder, Colorado. The Hunt Winston School Solar ... --7/20/2010
Game Design No Child's Play to Students.
Tori Hepler, 18, just graduated from Upper Dauphin High School and is a budding video game artist designing the lead character and monsters in a supernatural quest to defeat the Lord of Shadows. She i... --7/7/2010
NASA Launches Rocket Dreams at Texas High School.
Seven Northwest High School students form the team of rocketeers selected to participate in NASA’s 2009-2010 Student Launch Initiative (SLI). They are designing and building a rocket that will be laun... --1/12/2010
Students Have Eyes on the Sky: Flight School New Program for Wannabe Pilots.
Some juniors at Waterford Kettering High School soon will be soaring in single-engine Cessna 172s, as part of a new district program to cultivate wannabe pilots and aircraft mechanics. By the time the... --1/2/2010
Students Design Boat for Handicapped Coach.
During their third period class, 13 high school boys pushed an aluminum boat into the water at Montlake Park to check for leaks. The Moses Lake High School students have been welding the boat together... --11/6/2009
Students Build Green Cars for $7.5M in Prizes: Inner-City Kids Vie Against Fortune 500 Companies.
The kids at West Philadelphia High School’s Academy of Automotive and Mechanical Engineering have designed a 100-mpg passenger sedan that could go a long way — on very little fuel — toward helping to ... --10/20/2009
Washington Students Develop Web Sites for Peers.
Skyline Running Start student Adam Sidialicherif, a self-taught Web developer, just turned 16, but knows eight different computer code languages and has already developed a handful of Web-based resour... --9/24/2009
Michigan Students Build, Install Wind Turbine.
Not many people in Michigan can say they've built a wind turbine, because the renewable energy concept is so new. But a student-led group has constructed a 30-foot-tall, 1.2-kilowatt wind turbine at W... --7/15/2009
High School Solar Car Competition Hums Along on the Texas Motor Speedway.
The roar of revving engines at Texas Motor Speedway was replaced today with a soft hum of race cars powered by batteries and the sun. High school pit crews fiddled with solar cells and circuits at the... --7/14/2009
Students Create Video Games.
Instead of merely playing computer video games during the past week, 24 Zachary Community School District students spent lots of time learning the fine points of creating such games. The middle- and h... --6/29/2009
High school Students Get Ahead of the Curve During Summer Engineering Program.
Most high school students are out riding roller coasters during the summer, but about a dozen Valley teenagers are actually building them. A group of high school students had the chance to think like ... --6/23/2009
Students’ Award-Winning Ethanol Research Published in Prestigious Math Journal.
A paper written by four students from High Technology High School in Lincroft, New Jersey, entitled “Ethanol: Not All It Seems To Be” has been published in the January 2009 issue of The Mathematical A... --1/15/2009
Students Refurbish Computers for Cameroon Counterparts.
For the past four years, West Ottawa High School student Lacey Vande Bunte has given up her Sunday afternoons to rebuild computers. Vande Bunte one of 40 students in the group Cultural, Technological,... --12/29/2008
Teenagers’ Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing, MacArthur Study Finds.
The New York Times reports that all those hours their teenagers spend socializing on the Internet are not a bad thing, according to a new study by the MacArthur Foundation. “It may look as though kids... --11/20/2008
Students Apply for Patents for Energy-Saving Inventions.
Students from Highline School District’s Aviation High School in Des Moines have developed two inventions and are applying for a patent for one of them. Students developed one invention while designin... --10/18/2008
Gamers Well Adjusted and Civic Minded, According to Pew Study.
A new survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, called "Teens, Video Games and Civics: Teens' gaming experiences are diverse and include significant social interaction and civic engagement... --9/18/2008
Students to Spread Internet Safety Message.
25 Syracuse high schoolers spent this week earning the title of "ambassador" in a new district program that will encourage leadership and Internet safety. The Leadership, Education and Etiquette - On ... --8/2/2008
High Schoolers Help NASA Take One Small Step Back to the Moon.
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL: High school students from 35 Florida schools recently experienced what it might be like to land a rocket on the moon or excavate the lunar surface. During two, one-week sessions th... --7/30/2008
Students Build Life-Changing Robots.
High school students from around the world are in Burlington this week--helping create robots that can do just about anything. It's all part of UVM's 18th annual Engineering Institute. "This is our pr... --7/4/2008
High School Students Build Enclosed Electric Motorcycle.
BMW once came up with the idea to enclose a scooter and add some safety equipment to it. Crash tests showed surprisingly favorable results, but the idea never seemed to catch on and the C1 is no longe... --6/25/2008
High School Team Develops Door Alarm for Blind.
Rob Dunton, who is blind, could never tell if the creaking from his back door was caused by the wind or someone breaking into his house. Now he doesn’t have to worry, thanks to an open door alert syst... --5/30/2008
High School Students Happy with Hand-made Hard Drives.
Though it took five tries, Chase Anglin said it was an amazing feeling when the computer he helped to build turned on. "When the computer finally starts up it's like 'Yes!'" said Anglin, a sophomore a... --5/7/2008
Student-Built Prototype Gets 2,843 MPG.
A team of high school students from Mater Dei High School in Evansville, Indiana created a vehicle that achieved 2,843.4 miles per gallon on an internal combustion engine, winning the 2008 Shell Eco-m... --4/16/2008
Chinese, U.S. Students Join Hands to Explore Mars.
In the first-ever program of its kind, teams of U.S. and Chinese high school students on Sunday started a joint program to explore Mars at Arizona State University. The nine-day program involves 16 Ch... --1/28/2008
High School Students Discover Asteroid.
Three high school students from Wisconsin were notified on Monday that a celestial body they discovered during a science project had been verified as an asteroid. The students will be able to name the... --1/17/2008
Baton Rouge Students Build Supercomputers from Bits and Pieces.
Twenty-five Baton Rouge-area students arrived last Monday at LSU for a week of High-Performance Computing Boot Camp, to learn new computing languages and build their own supercomputing clusters of hig... --8/7/2007
Students Succeed in Bridge-Building Contest.
Four Mary Persons High School students--Parker Padgett, Ben Pierson, Teddy Ferguson and Jacob Marcy--all placed in the top 5 for their zone in the West Point National Bridge Design contest conducted b... --8/6/2007
Program Links Students to Military Mentors, Developing Technology for Navy.
Robotic submersibles, mines, diving equipment and bomb disposal suits were on display last week in a sort of military-grade science fair. The 18 students involved in the presentations are a part of th... --7/30/2007
Global Challenge Contest Links High School Students Worldwide in Science and Technology.
Chris Fitzhugh spent spring break building a copper and PVC-pipe model to show how temperature differences in the ocean can be used to generate electricity. The junior from Peacham and his teammates--... --5/21/2007
Student Boating Contest Draws Power from the Sun.
The high school teams that focus their ingenuity and time on building solar-powered boats for the annual Solar Cup competition at Lake Skinner in Temecula usually improve with experience, participants... --5/18/2007
PA High School Students to Launch Rocket for NASA Initiative.
Four Yough High School students will reach new heights when they blast off their 11-foot-long rocket in front of NASA engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, this week. T... --4/24/2007
Virginia Science and Technology Students to Launch First Ever Student-Built Satellite.
In late 2008 or 2009, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, with mentoring and financial help from a leading aerospace firm, is expected to do what only half the nations of the worl... --12/13/2006
California High School Students Gear Up for Solar Boat Building Competition.
Up to 1,000 high school students from Southern California will begin building solar-powered boats Saturday to compete in the fifth annual “Solar Cup” at the Lake Skinner reservoir. Students from a rec... --12/11/2006
High School Students Win Scholarships in National Siemens Math, Science and Technology Competition.
A high school senior from Oregon won a $100,000 scholarship Monday at the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology, for his research in a new area of mathematics called string topology. The... --12/5/2006
More than 1000 High School Students Launch Engineering Challenge at University of Vermont.
More than 1000 top high school students from across the US—as well as peers in Korea, China, India, Mexico and other parts of the world—are working in on-line teams to find real-world engineering solu... --11/27/2006
Colorado High School Students to Launch Boats, Foot Bags and Careers at MESA Fall Fling.
More than 260 high school students from 27 schools around Colorado will test their skills at building boats and medieval siege machines, called trebuchets, during the Colorado Mathematics Engineering ... --11/1/2006
Teenagers Reinvent Technology for Cellphone Ring Tones Adults Can't Hear.
The New York Times reports that the young have found a new weapon that could change the balance of power on the cellphone front: a ring tone that many adults cannot hear. In settings where cellphone u... --6/13/2006
Albany High School Students Prepare Biodiesel Energy Project for MIT Forum.
Philomath High School students and recent graduates will head to MIT this week to present their ideas on biodiesel at a forum. The PHS Biodiesel Project is an unofficial school club in which about 10 ... --6/11/2006
California Students Setting Sails for Solar Cup Victory.
Two years ago, Nogales High School students used a metal stool as a steering wheel for their first solar-powered boat. This year's boat, dubbed the Black Rose, has a conventional steering wheel, but s... --5/8/2006
Teen Inventors Crafting Way to Help Disabled and Their Pets.
Sophomore engineering students at Sussex County Technical School are budding inventors who may make it possible for people with physical disabilities to reward their service dogs with a well-timed tha... --4/18/2006
High Schoolers Reaching for Sky with Airplane Project.
18 Deseret students are building a real-life, take-to-the-skies, four-passenger Velocity aircraft, an unusual project for students barely old enough to drive. Thursday, students worked to grind fiberg... --3/3/2006
Auto Tech Classes Spurring High School Students, Filling Demand.
Auto mechanics classes, once a refuge for academically troubled high school students, now are an academic motivator for technologically savvy teens. Thousands of high school students are taking advant... --3/1/2006
Connecticut High School Students Collaborate on Solar Energy Project.
Foran High School students are researching a prototype solar energy collector, a technology whose future looks bright given soaring oil and gas prices. "We're the only school in the country that's goi... --12/13/2005
Teenagers Teach Parents to Text, Helping Hurricane Families Connect.
As the water surrounded their New Orleans hotel, Terri Bryant's cell phone stopped taking calls from Oregon. So with a flurry of keystrokes, her 16-year-old daughter turned her phone into a mini-typew... --9/4/2005
Oregon Students Win FORD/AAA National Auto Repair Title.
Racing against the clock and against 49 other student teams from around the country, aspiring auto technicians Oliver Dalman, 19, and Matthew Whitaker, 18, of Vale High School in Oregon, needed only 3... --6/27/2005
High School Team's Eco-Friendly Car Beats Toyota, Honda, Major Universities to Win Tour de Sol.
The West Philadelphia High School team's custom-built, 300-horsepower hot rod--fueled by soybean oil and electricity--busted an axle during a joy-ride Saturday afternoon, and it looked as if the team'... --5/18/2005
High School Students Built Equipment for NASA Space Station through HUNCH Program.
High school students are helping astronauts train to live on the international space station, working with the HUNCH program to build hardware for the Marshall and Johnson space flight centers. Monday... --5/17/2005
Missouri High School Students Invent Timesaving Window-Defrosting Device.
A group of high school students has invented a timesaving window-defrosting device which has captured the attention of a major electronics company. Tired of waiting for their car windows to defrost on... --5/6/2005
Four Immigrant Students Beat the Odds to Build a Better Robot, Winning Engineering Championship.
National Public Radio's "Here and Now" reports on a group of four public high school students from West Phoenix, Arizona who surprised the engineering world by taking top honors at the national underw... --4/22/2005
Texas Girls Break Ground with Tractor Restoration Team.
At Decatur High School, a group of girls is up to its
greasy elbows in a team competition that has been dominated for years by the boys. They are the school's all-girl tractor restoration team. Deca... --12/1/2004
High School Students Compete for National Awards in Energy Conservation and Economics.
Students at San Bernardino's San Gorgonio High School fully understand the connection between conservation and monetary considerations, thanks to trainers from the Energy Education Program Influencing... --11/26/2004
Schools' Bans on Student Cellphones Toppled Around the Country.
The New York Times reports that across the country, hundreds of high schools have reluctantly agreed to relax their rules about cellphones in schools. Rather than banning the phones outright, as many ... --9/29/2004
Blind Students and NASA Scientists Team Up at Rocket Camp.
Twelve blind high school students from all over the United States will soon be venturing where no blind students have ever gone before; to a NASA-supported rocket science camp in Maryland from August ... --8/12/2004
High Tech High Students Race Submarines in National Competition.
They're known as the human-powered submarine races, and to be a participant, one has to be tri-talented: a bicyclist, a scuba diver and an engineer. Students with those talents--using miniature fiberg... --7/31/2004
Teens Use MIT Grants to Invent Devices Improving Highway Safety.
Massachusetts teens may have the solution to drivers' roadway foes: crosswalks and potholes. Thanks to grants from the Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams Program, Arlington and Agawam high school students invent... --6/21/2004
High School Students Experts After Mars Rover Project.
After spending months gathering data on the Mars Rovers for NASA, a team of Lincoln High School students are becoming experts about the planet.
One of 54 Mars Exploration Student Data Teams across th... --6/5/2004
Two Albuquerque Students Develop Award-Winning Algorithm for Computational Origami, for Intel Science Fair.
James Colovos and John Reid, two juniors at the Albuquerque Public Schools Career Enrichment Center, developed a computational origami project as their project for the Intel Corp. International Scienc... --5/10/2004
Students Test New Educational Meteorology Technology with NASA.
High school students are helping to shape the educational programming of the future in the Ohio Valley. Students at St. Clairsville High School and Wheeling Jesuit University teamed up with the NASA-s... --5/3/2004
Robot Games Draw Thousands of Teenagers from Around Nation.
About 7,000 high school students will butt brains Friday and Saturday at the Georgia Dome to see which of more than 300 student-designed robots will earn their teams a piece of the $4.5 million schola... --4/15/2004
Students' Robots Prepare for Pentagon's Race Across Mojave Desert.
The rules were simple: If drone makers wanted to compete in the Pentagon's million-dollar, robotic, off-road rally, they had to make sure their creations could navigate a mile-long obstacle course fir... --3/10/2004
Plantation High School Students Launch Model Rockets for National Event.
A countdown, a flipped switch, and then it's one small step for egg, one giant leap for egg-kind. On the athletic fields at Plantation High School on Monday morning, 30 kids came to school on their da... --2/17/2004
Student Astronauts Watch Opportunity Roll, Spirit's Rock.
NASA scientists aren't the only folks poring through the near-constant stream of data coming from the Spirit and Opportunity rovers on Mars. An international team of students, sponsored by the non-pro... --2/5/2004
Fearless of Technology, Students Design Projects Through EAST Program.
Armed with high-tech tools, Arkansas' high school students are creating emergency response maps, developing 10-year growth plans for their cities, and designing community centers. These projects are d... --2/1/2004
Native American Students Invited to Honor Columbia Shuttle on Anniversary of Tragedy.
This Sunday, President Bush will hold a conference to remember the Space Shuttle Columbia. As part of the ceremony, 18 students from Sho-Ban High School will be at the Kennedy Space Center to take par... --1/26/2004
Student Astronauts Work with Scientists on Mars Exploration Rover Team.
While their peers sweat out their next geometry quiz, high school students Courtney Dressing and Rafael Morozowski are sweating out the commencement of surface activities with the rest of the Mars Exp... --1/12/2004
Parent-Child Conversations Facilitated by Instant Messaging Online.
The New York Times reports that almost three-quarters of all teenagers with online access use instant messaging and about half of all adults have tried the services. As families own more than one comp... --1/3/2004
MIT Students Pay Tribute to 100th Anniversary of First Flight.
Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology paid tribute to the 100th anniversary of man's first powered flight Wednesday by perching a replica of the Wright brothers' plane 150 feet high, a... --12/17/2003
Students Work to Rid World's Computers of Spyware Problems.
Outraged by the damage inflicted by a fast-spreading spyware application, a pair of high school students have teamed up to fight back. Jay Cross Jr. and Christopher Carlino, two high school seniors fr... --10/6/2003
High School Interns Get Glimpse Of Secretive World Of Shipbulding.
High school senior Cheryl Knapp worked this summer at Electric Boat, where she handed out inspection forms, blueprints and other classified paperwork to shipbuilders and inspectors working on the USS ... --8/24/2003
Company to Pay Up to $7 Million for Errors in Student Test Results.
A testing company that wrongly scored thousands of examinations required for high school graduation in Minnesota agreed to pay up to $7 million to students as part of a settlement, lawyers announced t... --11/26/2002
Southern CA Students Play Roles of International Negotiators in Online Project.
An innovative Whittier College online simulation
program Saturday gave young people in Southern California a taste of international politics. More than 100 students finished online discussions in the... --11/19/2002
Students Put Computers in Mississippi Classrooms.
Twelve Natchez High School students are working hard this summer to build computers, as part of Governor Ronnie Musgrove's initiative to have an Internet-accessible computer in every public school cla... --7/15/2002
Kids Use Computer Clubhouses to Leap Digital Divide, Put Creative Skills to Work.
KIDS ON THE WIRE 7/18/2002
Dennis Paiz-Ramirez, 16, has spent five weeks developing his own video game in a clubhouse in Albuquerque created to help young people in
low-income areas apply digital sk... --7/18/2002
Students to Control Automated Web Telescope in Chile.
U.S. high school students can already dial up a northern hemisphere telescope, and soon they will be able to view the night sky from south of the equator as well. By mid 2003, students nationwide will... --7/20/2002
Students Use Computer Graphics Skills to Design Band's Comeback Album Cover.
Colonie High School students will forever be identified with the '70s-era rock band known as Mountain, now that they are listed as cover designers on the band's comeback album, "Mountain High," schedu... --6/14/2002
Schools Rely on Students for Technical Assistance.
A new study of school districts showed that 54 percent of those surveyed depend on students to provide technical assistance, while teachers are "unevenly prepared for using technology as a tool for te... --6/7/2002
Wind Farm Project Debated at Student-Run Forum.
Students from Harwich High School sponsored a discussion on the Nantucket Sound wind farm project here on Tuesday night. If approved, the project would be one of the largest in the world, and the firs... --3/8/2002
Students Go Into Business to Provide Internet Service, Fund School Technology.
A student-run Internet service provider could bring in more than $2 million a year to the Mercer Island Schools Foundation. IslanderISP is ready to sign up customers, with service probably available b... --1/8/2002
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