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Technology Students Association completes first round of competitions

February 28, 2014
Ninth grader, Tyler Rispoli, accepts his award during the ceremony. Photo by Tim Dzurko
Ninth grader, Tyler Rispoli, accepts his award during the ceremony. Photo by Tim Dzurko

Students in seventh, eighth and ninth grade compete in many TSA competitions throughout the year. These competitions test students from many schools across Pennsylvania and the United States on their accomplishments in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The teams at the junior high and high school go to different competitions around Pennsylvania. After each competition, the students who get the highest place in the competitions move up to the next stage. These students work even harder to make their ideas or projects even better than they were before, but some students create a brand new project for the next competition they go to. All of the students that moved on are Casey Rispoli, Malia Schimminger, Tyler Rispoli, Jen Worley, Vanessa Gil, Coby Bornhart-Horton and Hannah Brown. These students advanced on to the next level.

Ninth grader, Tyler Rispoli, accepts his award during the ceremony. Photo by Tim Dzurko
Ninth grader, Tyler Rispoli, accepts his award during the ceremony. He had won first place in Flight Technology. Photo by Tim Dzurko
Tyler Rispoli and ninth grader, Lynsie Houk, watch students go up and show their ideas. Photo by Tim Dzurko
Tyler Rispoli and ninth grader, Lynsie Houk, watch students go up and show their ideas. The students showed respect to the other schools that were there by listening and paying attention to their ideas. Photo by Tim Dzurko
Photo by Tim Dzurko
Tenth graders, Fiona Lynch and Juan Gil, receive their awards during the ceremony. Once their names were called for their category, they would go up, receive their awards and went back to their seats. Photo by Tim Dzurko
Photo by Tim Dzurko
Fiona Lynch and Juan Gil show off their awards after the ceremony. They had won second place in Fashion Design. Photo by Tim Dzurko
Tyler Rispoli and seventh grader, Kasey Rispoli, accept their awards. Photo by Tim Dzurko
Tyler Rispoli and seventh grader, Casey Rispoli, accept their awards. They had gotten first place in Leadership  Challenges. Photo by Tim Dzurko
Tyler Rispoli, Kasey Rispoli and ninth grader, Malia Schimminger, smile after they receive their awards. Photo by Tim Dzurko
Tyler Rispoli, Casey Rispoli and ninth grader, Malia Schimminger, smile after they receive their awards. They were very proud of their achievements. Photo by Tim Dzurko
Fiona Lynch smiles after she receives her award. She had won first place in. Photo by Tim Dzurko
Fiona Lynch smiles after she receives her award. She had won first place in Desktop Publishing. Photo by Tim Dzurko
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    BRITTNEY F. • Apr 29, 2014 at 1:40 pm

    Well written article. All the pictures were great. Although you spelled some peoples name wrong. When is the next competition?

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