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Honeywell
Fiesta Bowl Aerospace Challenge Finals
were held in Peoria at the Challenger
Space Center
Story
and photos by Bette Sharpe - Glendale
Daily Planet
The
results are in.
Congratulations to “The
Plethorians” of Horizon and to
“Blitz Winter” of Coyote Hills for
making it all the way to the 2013
Honeywell Fiesta Bowl Aerospace
Challenge Finals
Honeywell Fiesta Bowl
Aerospace Challenge Finals were held in
Peoria at the Challenger Space Center,
21170 North 83rd Avenue.
The two day event culminated with
the Aerospace Challenge Finals on
Saturday, February 23. Six teams from six schools made it to the Finals, “Starfish
Prime” Basha Accelerated Middle
School, Chandler, Arizona; “JAVOS”
BASIS-Scottsdale, Scottsdale; “Blitz
Winter” Coyote Hills Elementary,
Peoria; “The Plethorians” Horizon
Elementary, Glendale, “Lunarm
Sphere” SS. Simon and Jude, Phoenix;
and “Mmmm Math-Lovin’ Mining Moon
Men” Wilson k-8, Oro Valley, Arizona.
Preliminaries
were held over three days earlier this
month in Mesa.
This is the 14th year
of the annual challenge.
Participating student are to
develop a plan for an International
Lunar Base, construct a physical model.
Skills learned from the
experience include problem solving,
communication skills, team building and
decision making.
Bette
Sharpe/Glendale Daily Planet no. 7675.
U.S.
Astronaut Sunita Williams, and Coyote
Hills “Blitz Winter” Coach Debbie
Jones at the 2013 Honeywell Fiesta Bowl
Aerospace Challenge held later in
February this year.
In previous years, the event was
held during the week been Christmas and
New Years.
Bette
Sharpe/Glendale Daily Planet no. 7866.
Front row: Ewdin Zargaryan, Matt
Siegel, Bradley Imig, and Paul Fogel on
team Blitz Winter, Coyote Hills
Elementary School, Peoria.
Fiesta Bowl 2012-13 Royalty, Laurel
Erdelyi, Dajanan Zlaticanin and Sarah
Philippe.
Bette
Sharpe/Glendale Daily Planet no. 7775.
Paul
Fogel, Edwin Zargaryan and Bradley Imig
carefully remove their model from the
stage after giving their oral
presentation in from of a panel of 8
judges from Honeywell and to the
audience.
Bette
Sharpe/Glendale Daily Planet no. 7839
Bradley
Imig, Matt Seigel, Paul Fogel, Edwin
Zargaryan of Coyote Hills Element
School.
Their team is “Blitz Winter”.
Bette
Sharpe/Glendale Daily Planet no. 7790.
“The
Plethorians”, Horizon Elementary in
Glendale, present their oral report in
front of an eight member panel of judges
from Honeywell.
Two the judge’s right set three
experienced astronauts who are also
listening to the group’s presentation.
Ms. Gingue is the team’s coach.
Bette
Sharpe/Glendale Daily Planet no. 7712
“The
Plethorians”, Horizon Elementary,
Morgan Kurtz, Maddie Heinzel, and Thao
Le.
All are in the 8th
grade.
There is some strong girl power
here.
Bette
Sharpe/Glendale Daily Planet no. 7849.
These
girls don’t take everything soooo
seriously, especially when asked by the
photographers for a goofy pose.
Front
row: Thao Le, Maddie Heinzel, and Morgan
Kurtz.
Second row:Fiesta Bowl 2012-13
Royalty, Laurel Erdelyi, Dajanan
Zlaticanin and Sarah Philippe.
Bette
Sharpe/Glendale Daily Planet no. 7735.
Three
experienced astronauts listen and make
some notes during the presentations made
by the six teams who were in the
Honeywell Aerospace Challenge this year.
U.S.
Astronaut Clayton C. Anderson, Mission
Specialist, STS-117, STS-118, STS-120,
STS-131 Expedition 15/16 and ISS Science
Officer; U.S. Astronaut Richard Linnehan,
Mission Specialist, STS-78, STS-90,
STS-109, STS-123;
and U.S. Astronaut, Captain Sunnita L.
Williams, STS-116. STS-117, Expedition
14/15 Expedition 32, 33 and ISS Science
Officer.
Bette
Sharpe/Glendale Daily Planet no. 7783
Honeywell
Engineers provide a judging staff and
are sponsors of the Honeywell Fiesta Bowl Aerospace Challenge.
Bette
Sharpe/Glendale Daily Planet no. 7769.
Detail
from “Starfish Prime”.
Bette
Sharpe/Glendale Daily Planet no. 7912.
The
winners 2013 of the Honeywell Fiesta
Bowl Aerospace Challenge, Jacob Gonalves,
JonBlake Chua, Ryan Tran, George
Wilkinson, and Jonathon Gonsalves, and
“Starfish Prime” coach, Mr.
Gonsalves.
Congratulations
to team “Starfish Prime” of Basha
Accelerated Middle School, Chandler,
Arizona.
As
this year’s winner of the Aerospace
Challenge, they win an all expense trip
of a lifetime to Huston and will be
recognized during a special on-field
presentation at the 43rd
Tostitos Fiesta Bowl in January 2014.
The five members worked for five
months on their project which included a
ninety page term paper.
Bette
Sharpe/Glendale Daily Planet no. 7686.
Jacob
Gonsalves, Ryan Tran, Jonathon Gonsalves,
George Wilkinson, JonBlake Chua and
Coach Mark Gonsalves of “Starfish
Prime” from Basha Accelerated Middle
School in Scottsdale.
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