On February 4 at Lamar University, 79 middle and high school students from four TAME Clubs in the Beaumont/Port Arthur area came together for the 2023 TAME Golden Triangle 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 eight mixed-age teams. The top four 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 Longevity Awards and Senior Awards to the graduating seniors that have been most committed to learning through TAME’s programs.
A huge and heartfelt thanks to the Golden Triangle TAME Chapter Leaders: Annie Carter, Phill Tucker, Dawn Battiest, and Joshua Wilson.
TAME would also like to extend our deepest thanks to the 2023 TAME Golden Triangle Competition presenting partner, ExxonMobil. We’re also grateful for the generous funding support for this competition and for TAME Club programming from Chevron Phillips Chemical and Motiva Enterprises.
TAME would also like to thank the 2023 TAME Engineering Competition season partners, General Motors, Halliburton Foundation, NI, The Boeing Company, ConocoPhillips, 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:
- Lamar University TAME Club
- Memorial 9th Grade Academy
- West Orange Stark Middle School
- Woodrow Wilson Early College High School
ENGINEERING DESIGN CHALLENGE RESULTS
1st Place | 2nd Place | 3rd Place | 4th Place |
Team 4 | Team 7 | Team 3 | Team 6 |
Black Buckets | Creeking not Leaking | Free Wheelies | The Munchkins |
Jahari Rembert | Dana Nguyen | Corleone Brown | Aleenah Kichy Buan |
Miracle Queen | Elliot Gravis | Gavin Syas | Axel Jotham Buan |
Eoin Echavez | Hayden Mosley | Eduardo Medina | |
Melenie Hernandez | Jacoby Wolf | ||
Torri Culpepper | Janyia Felder |
JUDGES’ CHOICE AWARDS
Judges’ Choice |
Team 10 |
Willy Powerful Team |
Carlissia Jones |
Jonathan Figueroa |
Kailynn Rodriguez |
Ryan Kirk |
Thien Nguyen |
LONGEVITY AWARDS
- Gavin Syas
- Torri Culpepper
SENIOR AWARDS
- Axel Jotham Buan
- Gavin Syas
- Nehemiah Beverly
- Saad Mohammed
- Torri Culpepper