The Oklahoma Engineering Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 Oklahoma Engineering Fair, an annual competition for aspiring middle school and high school scientists and engineers. First-place winners will receive medals along with plaques for their teachers and/or schools. Second and third place winners, etc., will receive medals.
About the Oklahoma Engineering Fair
The Oklahoma Engineering Fair, organized and directed by the Oklahoma Engineering Foundation is held every spring and brings together students, teachers, professors, and the business community to give students an introduction to engineering and related principles. The students are also given the opportunity to showcase their creativity in engineering construction and design through various categories of competition including a bridge competition; rubber band powered vehicle competition; drone competition; tower competition; electric motor competition; ping pong launcher competition and wacky wonders competition. The winners are:
BRIDGE COMPETITION
SPONSOR: Oklahoma Structural Engineers Association
COORDINATOR: Isabella Horton, P.E.
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD
Student: Joelly Nguyen, Team #34
School: Brink Junior High, Moore, Oklahoma
Teacher: James Robb
STRUCTURAL EFFICIENCY
1st Place: Team #2
Student: Piper
School: Lawton Academy
Teacher: Mr Saintcross
2nd Place: Team #1
Students: Xander Brinkef and Zion Giles
School: Lawton Academy
Teacher: Mr. Tony Saintcross
3rd Place: Team #6
Student: Lauren Work
School: Southridge Junior High
Teacher: Heather Armstrong
AESTHETCIS & CONSTRUCTION QUALITY
1st Place: Team #2
Student: Piper
School: Lawton Academy
Teacher: Mr. Tony Saintcross
2nd Place: Team #34
Student: Jolley Nguyen
School: Brink Junior High
Teacher: James Robb
3rd Place: Team #25
Student: Devyn Walters
School: Corn Bible Academy
Teacher: Asa Zosche
PREDICT & WIN PRIZE
1st Place: Team #27
Student: Brexton Tillberg
School: Santa Fe High School
Teacher: Ms. Chelsea Foo
BRUCE STOUT RUBBER BAND POWERED VEHICLE CONTEST
SPONSOR: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Central Oklahoma Section
COORDINATOR: Edwin Reynolds
1st Place: William Douglas
School: Mustang Central Middle School, Mustang, Oklahoma
Teacher: Kimber Smith
2nd Place: Elliot Greenlaw, Homeschool
School: Greenlaw Homeschool
Teacher: Paula Greenlaw
3rd Place, Emma Miller and Natalie Dlugonski
School: Corn Bible Academy, Corn, Oklahoma
Teacher:
DRONE COMPETITION
SPONSOR/COORDINATOR: Justin Cockroft, FAA; Evan Evans, Unmanned Systems Research Institute (USRI)
1st Place: Elliot Greenlaw, Homeschool
School: Greenlaw Homeschool
Teacher: Paula Greenlaw
2nd Place: Fernando Gomez; Xavier Tartsah and Caden Suster
School: Ft. Cobb Broxton Schools, Ft. Cobb, Oklahoma
Superintendent/Principal: Kyle Lierle
EIFFEL TOWER COMPETITION
SPONSOR/COORDINATOR: Dr. Bryan Grady, University of Oklahoma
1st Place: Southridge Junior High School, Moore, Oklahoma
Students: Alyzabeth Drewery, Tayte Widdison
Teacher: Heather Armstrong
2nd Place: Corn Bible Academy
Students: Kate, Claire
Teacher: Asa Zoschke
3rd Place: Arapaho Butler
Reagan Schoenppach, Kylin Oakes
Teacher: Blaine Eagan
IEEE ELECTRIC MOTOR CONTEST WINNERS
SPONSOR: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Oklahoma Section
COORDINATOR: Dan Morehead, Robert Scolli
1st Place: Julianne Hoang
School: Brink Junior High, Moore, Oklahoma
Teacher: James Robb
2nd Place: Cameron Wilcox
School: Brink Junior High, Moore, Oklahoma
Teacher: James Robb
3rd Place: Connor Cuomo
School: Southridge Junior High, Moore, Oklahoma
Teacher: Heather Armstrong
PING PONG LAUNCHER COMPETITION
SPONSOR/COORDINATOR: Nick Bidelspach, DitchWitch
1st place Ashlyn Phillips and Rosie Lopez- Garcia
School: Stillwater
Teacher: Angela Knott
2nd place Emma Coulter and Isabel Covington
School: Stillwater
Teacher: Kenade Billdt
3rd place Keeton Mason and Noah Tuttle
Teacher: Angela Knott
Teacher: Eric Forney
WACKY WORLD COMPETITION
SPONSOR/COORDINATOR: John Doddy, FAA
1st Place: Highland East Junior High, Moore, Oklahoma
Students: Luke Douglas, Tyler Skaggs, Dax Anderson, Jakob Czernecki
Teachers: Mrs. William and Mrs. Park
2nd, Place: Corn Bible Academy, Corn, Oklahoma
Students: August Dobrinski and William Penner
Teacher: Brendon Schmidt
3rd Place: Mustang Central Middle School,
Students: Alia Hegazy; Haldana Echeverria; Ayolan Engle; Madelyn Dayhenderson
Teacher: Kimber Smith
Honorable Mention: Jenks Middle School, Jenks, Oklahoam
Students: Ella Oden, Nevaeh Smith
Teacher: Mrs. Finch
Most Complex Action: Edward Nguyen and Andrew Trinh
School: Brink Junior High, Moore, Oklahoma
Teacher: James Robb
Most Creative: Tyson Choat, Duong Huynh, Lilyana Malone, and Kyah Trimm,
School: Highland West Junior High, Moore, Oklahoma