Middle School Students Utilize
Engineering and Teamwork
Skills at Fluid Power Challenge
orth Hills Middle School students claimed third-place
honors during the NFPA Fluid Power Challenge. The
winning team consisted of eighth-graders Emma Kim
and Odette Sherk and seventh-graders Maggie Davis and Abby
Thinnes.
During the two-day competition, middle school students
must work as a team to solve an engineering problem using fluid
power technology. Fluid power takes two forms – Hydraulics and
Pneumatics – and uses water or oil and air or carbon dioxide to
create or transmit power.
After a Workshop Day, students go back to their schools and
design and build a fluid power mechanism using the same
supplies as all other teams that will be used to compete in a
timed competition. During the Challenge Day, students submit
their design, build their machine and compete in the timed
competition.
The event promotes math and science education and allows
students to be exposed to careers that involved fluid power and
other technologies.
Congratulations
to Our PIAA
State Medalists!
S
ophomore wrestler Sam Hillegas won his second
PIAA State Wrestling Championship in the 126-pound
weight class, and senior swimmer Kevin Lovasik
earned a medal and placed seventh at the PIAA Swimming
Championships in the 100 breaststroke event.
ROSS TOWNSHIP
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