Forty-four students from across Northern Michigan presented research projects at the Fourth Annual Northern Michigan Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Symposium (NMMESS) on May 20, 2008. At NMMESS, students presented projects that answered a scientific, mathematical, or engineering question, or solved a problem. A committee of local secondary educators, college educators, and business/industry professionals reviewed the student projects and presentations.
Jake Drews (Home School) and Kevin Valley (Bellaire High School), members of the TBAISD Career Tech Center’s Manufacturing Technology Academy program, earned the High Honors Award and $250 savings bonds for their project titled “Top of the Hill.”
Two additional students who are members of TCAPS’ SCI-MA-TECH program at Traverse City Central High School earned Honorable Mention Awards and a $100 savings bond. These students and their projects are Tyler Broad, “Trebuchet Design Analysis,” and Spencer Thompson, “EMF of Substations and Transformers.”
The Fifth Annual Northern Michigan Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Symposium will be held in the spring of 2009. NMMESS is open to all math and/or science students ranging from upper elementary (grades 4-5), middle school (grades 6-8), and high school (grades 9-12) in the five-county Traverse Bay Region.
This event is sponsored by Traverse City Area Public Schools’ SCI-MA-TECH program, American Proficiency Institute, the Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District, and Northwestern Michigan College. The savings bonds are funded in part by a donation from TBA Credit Union.
For more information, call Tom Wessels, TBAISD Math/Science Coordinator at 922-7875 or John Failor, SCI-MA-TECH Director at 933-3554.