Daniel Boone Middle School had another great showing at the Pennsylvania State Technology Student Association (PA-TSA) conference. It was from Wednesday, April 15-Saturday, April 18. TSA is a club that fosters personal growth, leadership, and opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM); members apply and integrate these concepts through co-curricular activities, competitions, and related programs. This past conference had 44 middle school chapters and 84 high school chapters from across the state of Pennsylvania for a total of 1740 students in attendance; including judges, guests, advisers and judges the total number at the conference was 2,185, the largest in Pennsylvania’s history!
This conference allows students to compete in a wide array of technology – every part of technology is touched, from building, to research, to computer based technology. Some building competitions involve finding a need in the community and building something to meet that need, solar car construction, bridge building, airplane building,
problem solving construction; some research ones are researching a medical technology and how it affects people, researching an environmental issue, mapping out a geospatial grid, researching an energy source for our area and creating a proposal; the others are computer based: video game creation, poster design, screen printing, website design, pin design, video creation, desktop publishing, and so many more.
Daniel Boone Middle School had 38 students attend the PA-TSA State Conference and ended up with 65 finalist pins and 23 trophies.
The following students were finalists in their events: Challenging Technology Issues: (9th Place) Hunter Sprenkle & Zoe Sweet; Construction Challenge: (3rd Place) Madison Bickings, Morgan Carothers, Valerie Purretta; Construction Challenge: (10th Place) Braden Freer, Gabriel Steigauf, Josh Frankhouser, Ryan Naimoli; Digital Photography: (6th Place) Brian Soriano; Energy Sources: (3rd Place) Ally Santos, Eddie Barnett, Justin Peifer, Tori Pastor; Environmental Focus: (3rd Place) Breana McNamara, Claire LeBlanc, Lydia Davidheiser, Mason Jolivette, Paul Kingsburry, Stephen Eurillo; Go Green Manufacturing: (3rd Place) Brett Reinert, Christopher Confer, Ty Reinert; Junior Solar Sprint: (3rd Place) Eddie Barnett, Jake Brendle, Justin Peifer, Justin Semmer; Junior Solar Sprint: (10th Place) Ben Reno, Carmen Nicoline, Jaiden Justiniano, Paul Kingsburry; Leadership Strategies: (4th Place) Breana McNamara, Claire LeBlanc, Jerri Williams; Medical Technology Issues: (4th Place) Alexander Worrall, Breana McNamara, Kim Acuapa; Medical Technology Issues: (10th Place) Stephen Eurillo, Trey Bradfield; Promotional Design: (1st Place) Ally Santos; Promotional Design: (6th Place) Jerri Williams; STEM Animation: (8th Place) Eddie Barnett, Jake Brendle, Justin Peifer, Justin Semmer; Video Game Design: (6th Place) Quentin Stephany, Salvatore Chieffo, Tyler Schutz; Water Infrastructure: (4th Place) Eddie Barnett, Jake Brendle, Justin Peifer, Justin Semmer; Website Design: (6th Place) Salvatore Chieffo, Tyler Schutz (9th Place) Ally Santos, Tori Pastor; PA – Calculator Robots: (1st Place) Alexander Worrall, Madison Bickings; PA – Calculator Robots: (5th Place) Ally Santos, Tori Pastor; PA – CAD: (10th Place) Josh Frankhouser; PA – Digital Video Challenge: (10th Place) Breana McNamara, Kim Acuapa, Paul Kingsburry, Stephen Eurillo; PA – Logo Design: (2nd Place) Emily Olafson [Sponsored by: Amity Shirt Company]; PA – Logo Design: (5th Place) Claire LeBlanc [Sponsored by: Amity Shirt Company]; PA – Materials Process: (10th Place) Zoe Sweet; PA – R.C. Dragster (2nd Place) Quentin Stephany, Salvatore Chieffo, Tyler Schutz; PA – Safety Illustration – Computer: (2nd Place) Ally Santos (3rd Place) Lydia Davidheiser; PA – Snapshot: (7th Place) Tori Pastor.
The students who placed 1st, 2nd and 3rd qualified to compete at the National Technology Student Association Conference to be held in Dallas, Texas from June 28 – July 2.
