AWARDS 

Upper Darby High School Engineers Place 2nd and 4th in Widener Design Contest!

    On December 2, 1999, five teams representing Upper Darby high School's Engineering Design & Computer Assisted Drafting classes competed against 74 other teams from over 30 Delaware Valley schools in Widener University's annual mouse-trap design competition. Under the direction of technology education teacher Michael W. Choroneko, two of Upper Darby teams made it to the final elimination round. Upper Darby teams finished in Second and Fourth places and proved to be a dominant force as the only school with two teams in the final elimination round.
    The design challenge presented by Widener University this year was: Given a mouse trap as your only source of power, design that will shoot a ping-pong ball into a simulated skee ball target. The ball must travel 15 feet horizontally and 6 feet vertically and hit a target 5 inches in diameter to score 5 points.
    Students competing in this year's event achieved the following results:
            2nd Place: "Dragons" Jack Huang, Vinh Tran.
            4th Place: "Kicker" Ed Douglas, Danielle Porecca, & Stephanie Thomas,
            6th Place: "Fabulous 3" Bilal Ahmad, Jonathan Ayoub, & Rich Muse.
    Other competitors from UD included:
             "2 Guys and a Girl" Tim Lamberto, Rita Gladulich, & John Panagopoulos.
             "No Names" Tim Andress & Gary Booth.

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