March 18, 2003

TIMBERLINE CLAIMS VARSITY ‘JETS’ ENGINEERING TITLE AT BOISE STATE

Timberline High School captured the varsity championship and Eagle High School won the junior varsity title at the southwest Idaho JETS TEAMS (Junior Engineering Technical Society, Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics and Science) competition held at Boise State University March 15.

Approximately 160 students from area high schools participated in teams of eight. The annual event was hosted by the Boise State College of Engineering and includes a two-part test.

The Timberline B team took first place in the varsity division with 57 out of a possible 100 points. Team members are Jason Danner, Halena Van Deusen, Jake Renz, Aaron Dorn, Jyoti Sood, Kirsten Clark, Tim Ashworth and Henry Unrein.

Nampa High School’s team finished second with 56 points. Nampa’s team was comprised of Carina Castaneda, Steve Peterman, Joe Nutting, Dmitriy Myedvyedyev, Chad Gibbons, Dillon Wardwell, Shawn Gram Kow and Rebecca De Leon.

In the junior varsity competition the Eagle High School team of Matthew Wilson, Matt Johnson, Ryan Burningham, Ruibo Li, Greg Benjamin, Nick Guho, Kenneth Sikes and Owen Fletcher took first place with 49 points.

Kuna was the JV runner-up with 36 points, scored by the team of Julia Schormack, Cassie Gaige, Brianna McNall, Jason Brotherton, Wesley Cole, Devin McCleve and Jared Cole.

A total of 20 teams competed, nine JV and 11 varsity, from the following high schools: Eagle, Kuna, Nampa Christian, Emmett, Boise High, Buhl, Bishop Kelly, Timberline, Idaho City and Nampa.

The competition is part of a national academic program and that helps prepare students for potential careers in engineering and the sciences. The TEAMS competition enables high school students to learn team development skills and then participate as a group in an engineering problem competition. Problems cover mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology, visual interpretation of information, computer applications and reading analysis and interpretation.

Each year more than 20,000 high school students participate at more than 100 TEAMS sites nationwide. JETS will announce state rankings by April 3 and national rankings by April 29 and will recognize the top 10 national teams at both the varsity and junior varsity level.

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Leandra Aburusa

College of Engineering

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Pat Pyke

communications and marketing

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