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General News: Cornwall Students Win at Engineers Week Banquet
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| Photo by Joseph Oliveto. Cornwall Students Win at Engineers Week Banquet. |
March 06, 2014
By Joseph Oliveto
On Tuesday night, February 25, the 16th annual Mid-Hudson Valley National Engineers Week dinner was held at Anthony’s Pier 9 in New Windsor.
The event, which was sponsored by groups such as Central Hudson and local engineering firm Tectonic Engineering, celebrated the achievements of area students with a poster competition. Students from schools throughout the area were tasked with creating a poster which demonstrated the importance of Forensic Engineering.
Awards were given to those students whose posters best represented that theme. Awards were separated into categories, based on the grades of the participating students.
In the Grades 9 and 10 category, the third place prize went to Amanda Guido and Cassie Vallet for their poster, “Forensic Engineering,” second place went to Katelyn Lipton and Danielle Martini for their poster, “Find a Solution,” and first place went to Darcy Conley and Emma Schilling for their poster, “Cause and Effect.”
All the winners in the Grades 9 and 10 category were students from Cornwall Central High School.
Cornwall also had winners in the Grades 11 and 12 category, with Samantha Fowler and Rumzah Paracha taking home third place for their poster, “Forensic Engineering Wizadry,” and Branton Toback winning the first place prize for his poster, “Buckling Bridge.”
After awards were given, students and attendees were treated to a catered dinner, while Dr. Paul Mlakar from the US Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineer Research and Design Center in Vicksburg, Mississippi delivered a presentation on the importance of using lessons learned by disasters such as the Oklahoma City bombing, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina to improve our approach to engineering in the future.
Dr. Mlakar asked questions throughout the presentation, making sure that students were actively engaged in the process.
Each year, the Engineers Week dinner allows local students to not only share their knowledge of this subject, but to also learn what opportunities they may have to pursue a career in engineering in the future. For Cornwall students, it was a night of success, one which will hopefully follow next year.
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