Morse Elementary Students Win ExploraVision Competition Regionals

The following was submitted by Katherine Higuera-McCoy.

A team of four fifth-grade students from in Troy were selected as one of 24 regional winning teams from a group of 4,807 entries.

A total of 14,602 students participated in this year’s Toshiba/National Science Teachers Association ExploraVision program, the world's largest K-12 Science and Technology competition. The competition asks students to imagine ideas for future technologies that could exist in 20 years.

The students envisioned a Tread Transforming Smart Car, a car that will be traffic, terrain, and weather aware. It uses specialized sensors that give information about driving conditions to an internal computer. The computer then would decide if the tires should be bald or treaded. This information could be sent to other cars in the area so they could also shift their treads to match the driving conditions.

The winning team includes fifth-grade students Siddarth Marthi, Sribharat Koripella, Henry Barton, Prashant Shankar, coach Jodi Martin and mentor Kenneth Barton.