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Rachel Freeman School of Engineering Receives ExploraVision Award

The 16th annual Toshiba/National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) ExploraVision Awards Program announced its 2008 Regional winners, spotlighting students’ innovative ideas for future technologies. A project entry from Rachel Freeman School of Engineering has been chosen. On Thursday, March 20, at 9:00 a.m., an assembly will be held at the school. There will be an overview of all projects and special awards will be presented by a representative from the Toshiba Corporation.

As a regional winner, the school received a “Regional Winner Awards Package,” which included a laptop, banner for the school, a portable DVD player for the team coach, a school plaque, and framed certificates for each student, coach and mentor.

David Guerrero and Benjamin Mears, 3rd grade students, Brandy Metzger, their coach, and Paul Nichols, their mentor, entered their project titled, Stethoscope 1000. Their entry explained how the device would advance in the future. This new stethoscope would be able to extend so doctors would not have to be close to a patient, have hinges so it could fit in your pocket and be easier to carry around, have cables connected to speakers to hear the heartbeat more clearly, and have a heater built in with cloth covering the doctor’s ear pieces to make it more comfortable.

Rachel Freeman’s team is one of 24 selected regional winners. The team must now design a website and build a prototype of the technology. The website and prototype are due April 10 and will be judged along with the original entry by a national judging panel at the end of April.

Regional winners are invited to participate in the national competition for a chance to win a savings bond and an invitation to attend the Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision Awards Ceremony weekend in Washington, D.C., June 4 - 8, 2008. The national judging committee’s decision will be announced by May 1, 2008.
 

 

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3/19/08