30 New Jersey High Schools To Compete In Finals Of 2010 Panasonic Creative Design Challenge

NJPAC Hosts Finals of Premier H.S. Robotics Competition

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Apr 13, 2010, 12:50 ET

SECAUCUS, N.J., April 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --

WHAT: Student teams representing 30 New Jersey high schools will compete for more than $40,000 in individual scholarships and prizes in the finals of the Panasonic Creative Design Challenge (CDC), a premier science and engineering technology competition for public and private New Jersey high school students.

In this year's challenge, each team has designed and built a remote controlled robotic recycling plant to help sort through debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch http://www.greatgarbagepatch.org. In the finals, student teams will demonstrate their robotic recycling device and will be judged on the quality of their written report, oral presentation, engineering logbook entries, as well as the performance of their apparatus. Winning teams are awarded special category prizes, as well as scholarships to be used exclusively for college expenses.

WHO: Student Teams Representing...


Academies At Englewood – Dwight Morrow (Englewood)	Lenape Valley Regional High School (Stanhope)
Academy for Advancement of Science & Tech (Hackensack)	Linden High School (Linden)
Academy for Engineering & Design Tech (Hackensack)	New Providence High School (New Providence)
Academy for Telecom & Computer Science (Hackensack)	Northern Highlands Regional H.S. (Allendale)
Automotive Vo-Tech (Teterboro)	Northern Valley Regional (Old Tappan)
Bergen Technical High School (Teterboro)	Pascack Hills High School (Montvale)
Burlington County Institute of Technology (Medford)	Pascack Valley High School (Hillsdale)
Chatham High School (Chatham)	Rahway High School (Rahway)
Cranford High School (Cranford)	Ramapo High School (Franklin Lakes)
Delbarton School (Morristown)	Randolph High School (Randolph)
Deptford High School (Deptford)	Somerville High School (Somerville)
Dickinson High School (Jersey City)	Wallington High School (Wallington)
Emerson Jr. Sr. High School (Emerson)	Warren County Technical H.S. (Washington)
High Point Regional High School (Sussex)	West Essex Regional H.S. (North Caldwell)
High Technology High School (Lincroft)	Williamstown High School (Williamstown)

Executives Including…

Joseph Taylor -- CEO, Panasonic Corporation of North America

Bob Altenkirch – President, New Jersey Institute of Technology

WHEN: Wednesday, April 14th – 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Performance Trials: 9:00 a.m. 1:30 p.m.
Closing Ceremony and Awards Presentation: 3:00 to 3:20 p.m.

WHERE: New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)

One Center Street -- Newark, NJ

ABOUT: In 1991 Panasonic first introduced the Creative Design Challenge, a premier science and technology competition where engineering and technical skills are put to the test for teams of New Jersey high school students. Panasonic's long-term partner in this program is the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), one of the top engineering universities in New Jersey. For more information, visit http://www.panasonic.com/cdc/index.asp.

SOURCE Panasonic