Students from Gilroy and Morgan Hill took home top honors at the
San Jose Tech Museum’s Tech Challenge 2005, held Saturday in San
Jose.
Students from Gilroy and Morgan Hill took home top honors at the San Jose Tech Museum’s Tech Challenge 2005, held Saturday in San Jose. The Gilroy Fire Eaters, from Gilroy High School and South Valley Middle School, won the judge’s choice award in the ninth- through 12th-grade division. In the fifth- and sixth-grade division, the Fire-fighting Fuzzballs won best engineering design, the Fire Retardants won second place in best overall design methodology and the Nine Volts secured second place in best overall design creativity. All three teams are from Paradise Valley Elementary School in Morgan Hill.
The theme of this year’s challenge, “Battle the Blaze,” asked students to create and operate a device that can retrieve water from a lake – in the form of a 4-ounce water balloon – and deliver it to a make-believe wildfire on the top of a ridge. The students had three minutes to complete the challenge and spent months designing, building and testing their devices.
