NJSBA STEAM Tank™️ Recognizes 19 Student Entrepreneur Teams with an AIA New Jersey Human Built Environment Badge

June 04, 2024

K12 Architecture Education | Members & the Community

NJSBA STEAM Tank™️ Recognizes 19 Student Entrepreneur Teams with an AIA New Jersey Human Built Environment Badge

On Monday, June 3, 2024, Ms. Jennifer Siehl, Manager of the New Jersey School Board Association STEAM Tank™️ Challenge announced the winners of the 2024 STEAM Tank™️ Challenge. This popular program gives students the chance to invent, modify, or use problem-solving skills to solve real-world problems. Architects League members Joseph David, AIA, and Stacey Kliesch, AIA, served as mentors and judges throughout the season.

The top three high school division winners for the 2024 STEAM Tank™️ Season are:

1st Place- Team RICE Pack – Hoboken High School – $2,500

2nd Place – Team Downspout Dynamo- Hawthorne High School-$1,500

3rd Place- Team Viritec- Ridgewood High School – $1,000

The top three elementary & middle school teams have advanced to the NJSBA Workshop on Oct 22 & 23, 2024, at the Atlantic City Convention Center where $10,000 in prize money will be awarded between both divisions, courtesy of ELFNJ.

Elementary School Division:

Team Recall It- Woodbridge G & T

Team Door to Your Heart (app) Alice Costello Elementary School

Team Fentanyl Fighters- Knollwood School

Team Robix – Central Avenue School ( Alternate)

Middle School Division

Team Nurse Zero/Assist- Demarest Middle School

Team Mute Assistance Speech Communicator – Hartford Upper Elementary

Team Compost Coalition – PS 28 Christa McAuliffe School

Team Touch-up Brush- Haddonfield Middle (Alternate)

Nineteen teams were recognized with the AIA New Jersey Human Built Environment Badge, an honor that indicates that these projects contribute to the improvement of the Human Built Environment.

Project Change – Brick Memorial High School

Highway Hoppers – Point Pleasant Beach High School

Team Wave – Edison High School

The MOTH Girls – Atlantic County Institute of Technology

Smart Sensors – Newbury Elementary

Nurse Zero/Assist- Demarest Middle School

Naviguard – Cumberland Regional

EE Cycle – Sampson G Smith School- Franklin

Team APSE – Spring Lake Heights

Viritech – Ridgewood High School

Downspout Dynamo- Hawthorne High School

Maglev – Shore Regional High School

Compost Coalition – PS #28 – Christa McAuliffe

Green Wheels – Howell Middle School South

Deer Deter – Monroe Township High School

Micro Data Systems – Edison High School

Robix – Central Avenue, Madison

Team Rcyckles – Passaic Academy for Science & Engineering

Harness the Wind – Luther Lee Emerson

STEAM Tank™️ Challenge Benefits

When students participate in the STEAM Tank™️ Challenge, they get to:

Access to a comprehensive STEAM Tank™️ Playbook, a “how-to” guide for STEAM Tank™️ participation that features problem-based learning and engineering design challenge process
Hone critical thinking and problem-solving skills
Participate in a regional competition
Observe other teams to learn about different strategies, techniques and projects
Interact with mentors and collaborate with teachers
Have an opportunity to attend the NJSBA annual conference
Earn a STEAM Tank™️ Digital Badge for their school