By Jasmine Peters
The MESA (Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement) club attended a state competition at the Colorado School of Mines on Tuesday, April 5. Senior Quan Pham won one of five of the Outstanding MESA Student Awards and the Charle Farrell Scholarship worth $2,500, which came with a free laptop and software from Microsoft. Mason Montano won the Micro-Motion Scholarship worth $2,500 presented by MESA, which came with a free laptop and software as well.
Becca Erickson, Mason Montano, Tianna Peters, and Jasmine Peters won first place in the Water Still Competition. In this competition, members of a group had to make a device that would evaporate the most water, then condense it so the once evaporated water could be measured. This is a process used to clean water in remote areas such as Africa.
Pham, Michael Gabriel, and Tiffany Scroggin won first place in the video competition, which required that a video be made documenting the year for EHS MESA students. This video will also be used to promote MESA to students all around the state. All MESA students competed in four impromptu competitions as well. These competitions were a Rocket Launch, a Paper Tower, a Bio Bowl, and a Math Quest. Pham, Gabriel, and Scott Duscher all went to the finals for the Math Quest Competition.
Club members felt that all of these awards are extremely impressive considering that this is the first year EHS has had a MESA club. Englewood was also the only high school to receive two scholarships.
Heather Kent, the adviser of the teams, said, “I am extremely proud of all our students. Even those who didn’t take first place did amazing. I’m hoping this helps us expand our group in the coming years. I am happy to see EHS students making a name for themselves in the math and science areas.”
