Iowa City and Des Moines Students Named Iowa's 'Best in State' Winners in 2010 JETS TEAMS Engineering Competition

Tackle Global Water Challenge

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Students from Iowa City West High School and Des Moines Central Academy have been named the "Best in State" winners in Iowa in the Junior Engineering Technical Society's (JETS) 31st annual TEAMS engineering competition for 2010.   This year, they tackled one of the world's most pressing problems – the global water shortage, highlighted recently by the Haiti earthquake.  

Cedar Rapids-based Rockwell Collins is a major sponsor of JETS' TEAMS competition nationally and in Iowa.

The Iowa City students were named the top ranked 11/12 grade level team, while those from Des Moines took the top 9/10 grade level rank.  As "Best in State" winners the two teams receive medals and certificates, and will now vie for top national honors as "Best Overall" teams to be announced later in April.  The "Best Overall" teams will receive $2,500 for their schools and the top ranked 11/12 grade team will receive a three-night stay at the Walt Disney World Resort.  

The Iowa City students worked on their water challenges at the University of Iowa's College of Engineering on February 11th.   The Des Moines students gathered at the Des Moines Public Schools on March 10th.  

Themed, "Water, Water Everywhere," the competition demonstrated to the more than 10,000 participating students around the country how engineers in various disciplines, including environmental engineers, civil engineers, and mechanical engineers are involved in the protection and delivery of the world's water supply.  

"We want to congratulate our 'Best in State' winners in Iowa.  TEAMS, like all of JETS' programs, is designed to show today's students just how important engineers in the various disciplines are to solving society's problems," said Peter Carrato, Bechtel Corporation Fellow and Immediate Past President of the Board of Directors of JETS.  "While this year's theme of water was selected last year, it couldn't have been more relevant to the students, given the news they have watched from Haiti as people struggle to find clean, drinkable water."

Each year, JETS, through its TEAMS competition, provides students in grades nine through 12 with the opportunity to make real-world connections between math and science to engineering by solving actual engineering scenarios.  For more information about TEAMS and other JETS engineering programs for America's high school students, please visit www.JETS.org.

SOURCE Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS)

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