Lakeview wins big at STEAMposium

Last Saturday, the district’s STEAMposium event was held at the Curtis Culwell Center. STEAM is a huge competition, consisting of three events, that includes grades Pre-K through High School that satisfies one of the district’s improvement initiatives. Some of the competitors have been working on their projects since October.

Lakeview came out on top, winning Grand Prize (above first place) in all three events and received a STEAMly Cup for the school’s level of involvement.

“The winner of the STEAMly Cup is whichever high school had the most participants in the competition,” DC Physics professor and STEAMposium facilitator David Downing said.

Juniors Caleb Harris, Ahmad Kadado, Jorge Cancino, Joseph Zamora won Grand Prize for the Renewable Renovations Design project.

Kadado, Harris, and junior Liam Mahagan also won Grand Prize in the Maker Tank Engineering/Marketing Design Project.

“[It is] a competition inspired by the reality show Shark Tank,” Mahagan said. “Participants come up with a project and they try to sell it to investors (the judges).”

The Trebuchet Engineering Design project was the star of the show. Students have been working on these projects since October, which also counted as grades for the Downing’s DC Physics class. Junior Ben Harris won Grand Prize, Zamora won First, juniors Jacob Arey, Matthew Graham, and Nicolas Rene won Second, and Kadado, Mahagan, and junior Raqeeb Ali won Third.

“It was kind of a mixed bag working alone because you get more work done, but you don’t have anyone to bounce ideas off of,” ben said. “Even though I got Grand Prize it was interesting seeing everyone else’s designs and how they approached the project.”

STEAMposium is an annual event. Students interested in competing can talk to Downing in room 2226.