Creekside Engineering Students Win SAME Career Day Competition
National Engineers Week always begins during the week of George Washington’s birthday, as not only was he our first president he is considered to be the nation’s first engineer. The 2022 Engineers week began February 21st, with the annual Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) Career Day occurring at the end of the week on Friday, February 25th. Public, private and home-schooled students from northeast Florida were in attendance.
Students with an interest in STEM related fields found Career Day to be highly educational and enlightening. Activities included hands-on projects, interaction with local engineers and several Florida universities, lunch, and a keynote speaker.
Participants competed in three events to take home the “Engineer Cup”, consisting of a take home project, a surprise project and an “engineering trivia challenge”. The trivia challenge allows students to learn about actual engineering projects through interaction with local universities and engineering firms exhibiting at the event. Take home and surprise projects were judged against a variety of criteria, and awards were given to the winning team for each of the three competitions.
The goal of the take home project was to construct a bridge using only uncooked spaghetti and hot glue that had the highest strength to weight ratio.
Creekside was the team with the highest overall average score of the three competitions and claimed the cup to display at CHS for the second consecutive year. The winning team consisted of:
- Joseph Hadad
- Alex Wenzel
- Magnus Schmidt
- Luke Dixon
Senior Daniella Young won a prestigious Scholastic National Gold Key for a drawing she submitted to Scholastics Art Awards last December, 2020. After winning a Regional Gold Key, Daniella’s work went on to receive a National Award summer 2021. This is a huge achievement for Daniella as a National Gold Key winner. The CHS Art Department is proud of her success and her achievement!
Members of the Creekside High School Environmental Club recently participated in a local beach clean up project.
Nineteen students from the Engineering Academy volunteered with St. Johns Housing Partnership Saturday, September 25 to build an accessibility ramp at the home of a St. Johns County resident. The project started at 8am and was finished at 2pm. It was the 20th ramp built by the Engineering Academy over the past 11 years. Students used skills learned in their academy such as teamwork and measuring and put into practice their OSHA safety certifications. They also learned how to use power tools such as the circular saw, the reciprocating saw, the rafter square and the pneumatic framing nailer.
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