for the future On May 7, ten students from the Churchville-Chili Junior High School Technology Club attended an engineering fair at Rochester Institute of Technology. Engineering firms from the Rochester area sponsored the fair and provided demonstrations and games for students. A competition was also part of this fair. Most of the students in the CCJHS Technology Club chose to compete in stationary power lift competition. The students formed teams to construct cranes from specified Lego kits. The challenge was to lift as much weight as possible while staying within the design constraints set by the RIT engineering committee. Students were also responsible for keeping a design journal, which was critiqued by RIT engineering professors. Bryan Myers, a CCJHS seventh-grader, chose to compete in a competition that required an original idea for power generation. He designed a prototype of a perpetual generator. A perpetual generator will power another generator without any outside power sources. Bryan's perpetual generation ideas was the talk of the fair and earned him a first place prize in his age category. The club advisors are CCJHS teachers, Ryan Wall and Claire Eiselen. |
