We are very proud of our PA state champion MESA team lead by Jesus Davaloz, Kai Tinsley, Marcus Seawright, and Markeyes Justice. They competed in the MESA Nationals Prosthetic Arm Engineering Design competition near Salt Lake City, Utah from July 17-20th.
They placed second in ALL of the following individual categories Academic Display, Oral Presentation, AND Technical Paper! They also earned first place in Object Relocation, one of four performance categories. The other three categories, we did not place.
They didn't place overall this year, after finishing second last year. It was a very competitive field with 12 states sending strong state champion teams. The team is hungry for next year planning to return to Utah as seniors! Next year's competition will additionally require incorporating programmatically controlled motors using an Arduino microcontroller to operate the prosthetic device.
Thanks to Dr. Jamie Bracey from Temple University and sponsor Waste Management for funding our trip. Principal Ted Domers and Dr. Amit Basu for supporting our work all year long!
Philadelphia was awarded the next MESA Nationals competition site starting in June 2017!
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