Seneca Valley Engineering Team Earns Top Placements in State and National Competition

Sixteen students from Seneca Valley Intermediate High School participated in the “TEAMS” engineering competition in April, earning the highest scores in school history and winning state and national placements in the junior varsity division. 

This team-oriented competition requires students to solve 80 complex science and engineering related problems within 90 minutes. The also must correspond long form questions in a second, 90-minute session. 

The theme of this year’s competition was “Engineering a secure cyber space,” and scores were compared at state and national levels with other competing schools of similar size and enrollment. 

The team, which broke previous school scores in addition to its impressive state and national finish, is comprised of Tanner Quiggle, Maresa Vaccarello, Cory Nagel, Nick Francino, Michael Kolor, Mitch Lachat, Shane Hepner and Martin Chrzanowski. 

The second intermediate high school team also scored impressively, taking fourth in the state, and 20^th in the nation, also in the JV division. 

Students on this team include Cole Davis, Liz Milton, Kobie Rankin, Jack Connors, Matt Corcoran, Jacob Rickabaugh, Jeff Rodrigues and Isaac Daley.

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