On April 1st at The University of Texas at Austin, 89 middle and high school students from nine TAME Clubs in the Austin area came together for the 2023 TAME Engineering Competition!
The day was a flurry of creative exploration and collaboration as teams worked to develop a prototype for water transport, as well as the documentation and design proposal. The TAME Competition theme of water transport aligns with what many TAME Clubs have been learning about all year: the essential role of engineers in helping the world access clean water.
The TAME Competition had 21 mixed-age teams. The top six scoring teams were recognized at the event. Special Judges’ Choice Awards honored students who exemplified TAME’s 5Cs of engineering (Curious, Creative, Collaborative, Committed, Contributive). TAME also gave out Senior Awards to the graduating seniors that have been most committed to learning through TAME’s programs.
TAME would also like to extend our deepest thanks for the generous funding support for this competition and for TAME Club programming from EOS and PPG.
TAME would also like to thank the 2023 TAME Engineering Competition season partners, General Motors, Halliburton Foundation, NI, The Boeing Company, ConocoPhillips, ASCE Texas Section, and Silicon Labs! We’re grateful for their generous funding support for this year’s engineering challenge that started with the Diving Deep into Water TAME Clubs curriculum and is coming alive throughout this TAME Competition season!
Congratulations to all our hardworking competitors!
PARTICIPANTS
The following TAME Clubs participated in the event:
- Austin Youth River Watch
- Canyon Vista GEMS Club
- Cedar Valley Middle School
- CHS Connally
- McNeil TAME Club
- North Belton Middle School
- Pflugerville High School TAME Club
- TAME Round Rock High School
- Westwood High School TAME Club
ENGINEERING DESIGN CHALLENGE RESULTS
1st Place | 2nd Place | 3rd Place | 4th Place | 5th Place | 6th Place |
Team 11 | Team 13 | Team 1 | Team 8 | Team 6 | Team 5 |
Spinning Wheels | Water Is Not Wet | Water H20 | Wheel People | C Team | Cow Wells |
Advitya Gupta | Joseph Lijoy | Anirudh Puvvada | Eileen Zhao | Ethan Do | Jin Oak |
Ayleen Torres | Judith Amalraj | Bethany Lopez | Krishn Bhatia | Ishani Verma | Luana Tsai |
Joan Amalraj | Marie Cho | Jennifer Zhang | Laura Shouba | Katherine Reed | Marzuq Mazid |
Holt Perryman | Sumin Yeo | Joseph Warner | Madison Stryjewski | Sarah Lee | Shruti Sivaraman |
Rishi Poruri | Tanay Thakkar | Roshni Muthuswamy | Teo Kim |
JUDGES’ CHOICE AWARDS
Judges’ Choice | Judges’ Choice | Judges’ Choice |
Team 10 | Team 17 | Team 9 |
Team 10 | Team 17 | H2Organization |
Adya Bharadwaj | Bethany Tran | Anagha Deepak |
Dhavan Heble | Chenchu Harshika Velineni | Ashutosh Dhakal |
Eshwar Karthik Addala | Hanish Mamidi | Karshin Kalaisejiane |
Gavin Wu | Lela Thornhill | Lasya Medikonduru |
Maria Halai | Sophie Liu |
SENIOR AWARDS
- Brian Oak
- Marzuq Mazid
- Sumin Yeo