(Austin, TX) – The 2018 TAME Capital Area STEM Competition was hosted at The University of Texas at Austin’s Engineering Education and Research Center on Saturday January 27, 2018. The event, offered free of cost to participants, brought together more than 170 student competitors (grades 6-12) from across the region.
Students competed in individual math and science tests and as part of a team to solve an Engineering Design Challenge. This year’s challenge was developed by engineers from Raytheon. The top six finishers in each test and the top three teams from the Engineering Design Challenge were recognized. Three teams also received a special Judges’ Choice Award for creative problem solving. One student from each grade level was recognized as the Ace Award Winner for the highest combined math and science score.
The Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering (TAME) is a statewide 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1976 that enables Texas students to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). In addition to testing student knowledge of math and science concepts, the competition promotes teamwork, leadership, and academic achievement.
More information on TAME’s STEM Competitions can be found here. If you have any questions or comments, please contact the leadership for the Capital Area Chapter.
Congratulations to all our competitors!
EVENT PHOTOS
If you took photos at the event, please consider sharing pictures of the 2018 Divisional STEM Competitions with the TAME State Office. We will share selected pictures on the TAME Facebook page and with corporate and university partners who have ensured that the competition is offered free of cost to participants. You can email pictures to programs@tame.org or upload them to Google Drive here.
Photo by Clifton Wendell from the 2018 Capital Area Divisional STEM Competition.
MATH TEST RESULTS
1st Place | 2nd Place | 3rd Place | 4th Place | 5th Place | 6th Place | |
6th Grade | Jennifer Dai | Aakash Challapalli | Vibha Kannan | Advait Bapat | Yaya Zhou | Arnav Valvekar |
7th Grade | Kavita Kohli | Rishi Koneru | Sara Garg | Manika Aggarwal | Akhila Rajesh | Lea Chong |
8th Grade | Grace Li | Samantha Bui | Shonell Rowell | Christina Ko | Oliva Chen | Nidhi Malpani |
9th Grade | Archita Amudhan | Paawan Desai | Anouka Saha | Todd Tran | Joshua Hidalgo | Allison Thompson |
10th Grade | Apoorva Amudhan | Zain Momin | Janssen Fang | Vaidehi Phirke | Tiffany Tran | Justin Ebem |
11th Grade | Adithya Sreenivasan | Jenny Zhang | Richard Liu | Derek Lu | Kellen Nguyen | Marc Abdallah |
12th Grade | Vinh Ton | Jaden Fang | Osric Nagle | Samuel Perales | Samridhdi Shestha | Hunter Jensen |
SCIENCE TEST RESULTS
1st Place | 2nd Place | 3rd Place | 4th Place | 5th Place | 6th Place | |
6th Grade | Emaan Chhatriwala | Bowen Liu | Arthur Evans | Akshay Sajeev | Arnav Valvekar | Aakash Challapalli |
7th Grade | Kavita Kohli & Rishi Koneru | Sara Garg | Kimberly Lam | Sudeep Sirivella | Manika Aggarwal | Neeharika Dasaraju |
8th Grade | Grace Li | Shonell Rowell | Laya Yalamanchili | Samantha Bui | Oliva Chen | Christina Ko |
9th Grade | Anouka Saha | Joshua Hidalgo | John Stock | Roberto Salinas | Ryan Loser | Allison Thompson |
10th Grade | Vaidehi Phirke | Janssen Fang | Claudia Fierro | Bhabishya Shrestha | Abhishek Rao | Apoorva Amudhan |
11th Grade | Jenny Zhang | Emmanuel Ankutse | Srija Ghosh | Adithya Sreenivasan | Paul Choi | Richard Liu |
12th Grade | Vinh Ton | Nathnael Mekuria | Samuel Perales | Osric Nagle | Merlin Bijoy | Vivianne Schaffer |
ACE AWARD WINNERS
Combined Score | |
6th Grade | Emaan Chhatriwala |
7th Grade | Rishi Koneru |
8th Grade | Grace Li |
9th Grade | Anouka Saha |
10th Grade | Vaidehi Phirke |
11th Grade | Jenny Zhang |
12th Grade | Vinh Ton |
ENGINEERING DESIGN CHALLENGE RESULTS
1st Place | 2nd Place | 3rd Place | Judges’ Choice | Judges’ Choice | Judges’ Choice |
Flying Eos | Pixar | Flame | Smoke | Float Bird 5000 | Cookie |
Dafhne Salvador | Sofia Francis | Aditi Mohankumar | Elly Nguyen | Salvador Castaneda | Emaan Chhatriwala |
Lea Chong | Srija Ghosh | Christina Ko | Kellen Nguyen | Amelle Davis | Ha Eun Lee |
Liandra Niyah | Sudeep Sirivella | Hunter Jensen | Matthew Varela | Connor Montenegro | Kristie Ulloa |
Megan Mackey | Vivianne Schaffer | Jaden Fang | Oliva Chen | Jenny Zhang | Nonso Chukwurah |
Sunmin Kim | Vu Du | Michelle Galo | Samuel Perales | Nilava Saha | Tiffany Phan |
Zainah Siddiqi | Vaidehi Phirke |