By Miki Masuda | Development Coordinator
This year's event days for The 28th Annual Tech Challenge - Seismic Engineering in Action, Presented by Cisco were amazing! To give you a better idea of how the 2000 students’ months of hard work paid off during the event days that followed, please watch our three minute video. You will definitely smile and feel the innovative and inspirational energy of their hands-on, team engineering design experience.
Maybe your school is represented in this year’s winners, from 4th Grade through High School!
4th - 6th Grade
Best Overall 1st Place
Tectonic Dudes
Team # 414
Hyde Middle School
Best Overall 2nd Place
Endless Potato
Team # 486
Best Overall 3rd Place
Kung Fu Penguin
Team # 549
Bullis Charter School
Outstanding Engineering Journal
Unbreakables
Team #176
Mission Valley Elementary
Science Monkeys
Team # 74
Building Starz
Team # 70
Alexander Rose School
Outstanding Engineering Design Process
The TecTonic Plates
Team # 72
Castilleja
Tech-Tonics
Team # 248
Oak Elementary School
The Tectonic Tortoises
Team # 266
Cousins
Outstanding Device Performance
Shaken Not Stirred
Team # 571
Schafer Park Elementary School
Tier Fyre
Team # 468
Madera Elementary School
Team Asian
Team # 608
William Sheppard Middle School
Judges Inspiration Award
Presented by Greg Brown
Rambertechies
Team # 295
George Miner Elementary
Video Contest: Best Early Video
Presented by ARM
Team Name: Tri-Seismologists
Team: #296
Best Teamwork
Zalzala
Team # 548
Stratford School
Best Team Safety
Niles Tectonix
Team # 437
Niles Elementary School
Best Costume
KLS Construction Warriors
Team # 603
Khan Lab School
Best Sportsmanship
Periodic Coffee Tables
Team # 179
St. Martin of Tours
Most Creative
The Powerpurrfect Girlz!
Team # 94
Group of Friends
Judges Choice
Evil Gluers
Team # 220
Lincoln Elementary School
Judges Choice
A and K Modern Inventions
Team # 310
Gardner Bullis Elementary
Judges Choice
The Flying Pigs
Team # 240
Charter School of Morgan Hill
7th and 8th Grade
Best Overall 1st Place
Power Builders
Team # 243
Hopkins Junior High School, Gomes Elementary School, Livermore Valley Charter School
Best Overall 2nd Place
SJV Impact
Team # 429
St. John Vianney School
Best Overall 3rd Place
Cookie
Team # 436
Hyde (Warren E.) Middle School
Outstanding Engineering Journal
Technically Challenged
Team # 276
Castilleja School
Quaker Oats
Team # 484
St. John Vianney
EarthQuacks
Team # 214
St. John Vianney School
Outstanding Engineering Design Process
Rubble Rousers
Team # 27
Rancho and Russell Milpitas Middle Schools
Wind Lords
Team # 231
Warren E. Hyde Middle School
Shock Waves
Team # 304
St. John Vianney School
Outstanding Device Performance
The Quakers
Team # 479
Shockwave!
Team # 246
Magnolia Science Academy
The Shockwaves
Team # 465
Judges Inspiration Award
Presented by Greg Brown
The Ring of Fire
Team #661
Homeschool
Video Contest 1st Place
Presented by ARM
Team Name: EarthQuacks
Team #214
School: St. John Vianney
Video Contest 2nd Place
Presented by ARM
Team Name: Rijnorponex
Team #224
School: Ocean Grove Charter School-Homeschool
Best Teamwork
MMs
Team # 228
Discovery Charter School
Best Team Safety
{Bad Pun about Earthquakes}
Team # 274
Synapse School
Best Costume
TMNT Engineering Squad
Team # 103
Centerville Junior High School
Best Sportsmanship
Bad News Bears
Team # 186
St. Martin of Tours
Most Creative
Wild Makers
Team # 536
Boys Girls Club of the Peninsula
Judges Choice
Chowmein Ninjas
Team # 127
Peterson Middle School
Judges Choice
The Traffic Cones
Team # 203
St. Joseph of Cupertino Elementary School
Judges Choice
iSolve
Team # 359
High School
Best Overall 1st Place
Half Moon Bae
Team # 478
Cupertino High School
Best Overall 2nd Place
Girls on Fire
Team # 21
Christa McAuliffe Alums at Monta Vista, Lynbrook and Cupertino High School
Best Overall 3rd Place
Quake Busters
Team # 481
Lynbrook High School
Outstanding Engineering Journal
Capricakes
Team # 626
Cupertino High School and Lynbrook High School
Terraemotus Vici
Team # 565
Carlmont High School
Quake Busters
Team # 481
Lynbrook High School
Outstanding Engineering Design Process
Seismic Xperts
Team # 405
Cupertino High School
Nihil & Co.
Team # 728
Monta Vista High School
Zero K
Team # 302
Cupertino High School
Outstanding Device Performance
Riff’s Raffs
Team # 408
Cupertino High School
Kh(Anh)
Team # 663
Oak Grove High School
H2Owned
Team # 551
Cupertino High School
Judges Inspiration Award
Presented by Greg Brown
The Fault Liners
Team # 221
Saratoga High School
Best Teamwork
Stress
Team # 494
Cupertino High School
Best Team Safety
Mischief Managed
Team # 346
Cupertino High School
Best Costume
Duct Tape Towers
Team # 298
Boy Scouts of America
Best Sportsmanship
Groundbreakers
Team # 435
Cupertino High School
Most Creative
Team Tactical Techtonic Tickles
Team # 321
Wilcox High School
Judges Choice
The San Andreas Faultliners
Team # 623
Cupertino High School
Judges Choice
Seismic Survivors
Team # 5
Milpitas High School
Judges Choice
The Quakers
Team # 547
Cupertino High School
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