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Congratulations to the Nogales High School Engineering Team that has made it to the final championships of the JPL Invention Challenge Competition. The team competed on November 19 and placed fourth out of 22 teams at the regional event hosted by Segerstrom High School in Costa Mesa. Nogales High School engineering students Jonathon Soto, Joseph Catalan, John Robles, Lou Asher, and Team Advisor, Engineering Teacher Alan Davis will now compete at the championship round which will be hosted at NASA's JPL facility on December 9.
“This is history in the making since this is the first time our Nogales High School engineering students have ever made it to the championships at JPL in the three years Nogales has competed,” said Mathematics Teacher Aaron Maldonado. “This is also the first time that Nogales students will be at an actual NASA facility. They are beyond excited for this accomplishment and I am deeply honored that I got to witness it myself and support our engineering students.”
The JPL Invention Challenge combines the skills of creativity, team building, designing, fabrication, testing, and solving complex problems. At the championships, students will get to work alongside JPL engineering teams.
The Nogales Engineering team was the only school at the competition that used a computer program that was built by the students for better precision and accuracy of their device. "It was good to work with the team and learn from each other to overcome obstacles that the challenge provided us,” said Joseph Catalan.
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