Hoboken Schools To Participate In Annual NJIT eSTEM Challenge

Hoboken NJ

02 February, 2022

6:25 PM

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Press release from Hoboken Public School District: Feb. 2, 2022 Hoboken Public Schools will enter two teams into the 2nd annual NJIT eSTEM Challenge, sponsored by the Center for Pre-College Programs at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. This challenge features a renewable energy theme and requires teams to create a solution by using the engineering design process. Hoboken Public School teams, led by coaches Hillary Quist and Michael Caniglia-Robiolio, are each composed of six students in grades 4 and 5 from all three elementary schools. Our future engineers met their teammates, coaches, and NJIT student mentors during their first meeting to kick-off the challenge. During this meeting, their coaches revealed this year's challenge and expectations. The teams started brainstorming ideas about their device after learning about what materials they were allowed to use and constraints for the project. The NJIT student mentors helped answer questions that our teams had regarding materials and rules. Over the next several weeks, the teams will meet regularly to research, plan and test their devices under the guidance of their coaches. The students will use the engineering design process to not only create their device, but also to improve upon it by asking questions and analyzing their data. NJIT provides each team member with an engineering logbook so that each member can document the process, but also reflect on their team's and individual work. The teams will present their devices and data to a panel at NJIT in mid-March 2022. This press release was produced by Hoboken Public School District. The views expressed here are the author's own.