NMSU announces NM Technology Student Association state conference winners

At this year’s hybrid New Mexico Technology Student Association conference, held March 31 to April 1 at NMSU, more than 120 students from middle and high school chapters showcased projects and practiced leadership skills through more than 35 different science, technology, engineering and math competitions.

Cloudcroft High School was crowned as this year’s state champion.

The New Mexico Technology Student Association, managed through New Mexico State University’s College of Engineering, is the state’s STEM career technical student organization.

Schools in attendance included Chaparral High School, Cliff High School, Cloudcroft Middle, Los Lunas High School, Newcomb High School, Pecos Cyber Academy, Santa Teresa High School, School of Dreams Academy and Volcano Vista High School.

“TSA is a wonderful career technical education program that provides students with opportunities for career-based learning that contributes to a skilled workforce in New Mexico,” said Clara Raley, NMSU STEM program manager and TSA state adviser. “This year, we even added two new events, drone challenge and audio podcasting. We were so excited to see several new schools join TSA this year, and compete at the state conference, which almost doubled the number of students competing.”

As a national career and technical student organization, TSA provides affiliated schools with more than 73 intra-curricular career-based projects for middle and high school students and a virtual leadership curriculum.

Student members complete standards-based experiential projects to build the necessary skills and knowledge to compete at the annual state leadership conference with the chance to advance to the national conference in Louisville, Kentucky, in June.

Local, state high school winners:

• Animatronics

First Place: Los Lunas High School

• Audio Podcasting

Second Place: Los Lunas High School

• Children’s Stories

First Place: Los Lunas High School

• Coding

Second Place: Los Lunas High School

• Computer-Aided Design, Engineering

First Place: Samuel Martin, Los Lunas High School

•  Debating Technological Issues

First Place: Nadalia Hernandez and Isaac Jiron, Los Lunas High School

Third Place: Scarlett Marez and Ella Zamora, Los Lunas High School

• Digital Video Production

Second Place: Los Lunas High School

• Dragster Design

First Place: Samuel Martin, Los Lunas High School

Second Place: Austin Martinez, Los Lunas High School

Third Pace: Joshua Lipschultz, Los Lunas High School

• Drone Challenge

Second Place: School of Dreams Academy High School

• Essays on Technology

Second Place: Kyleigh Winters, Los Lunas High School

• Extemporaneous Speech

Third Place: Scarlett Mare, Los Lunas High School

• Fashion Design and Technology

Second Place: Los Lunas High School

• Music Production

Third Place: Los Lunas High School

• Prepared Presentation

Third Place: Isabella Ortiz, Los Lunas High School

• Promotional Design

Second Place: Isabella Ortiz, Los Lunas High School

• Senior Solar Sprint

Third Place: Los Lunas High School

• Structural Design and Engineering

Second Place: Los Lunas High School

• Technology Bowl

First Place: Los Lunas High School

Third Place: School of Dreams Academy

• Webmaster

Second Place: Los Lunas High School

Local, state middle school winners:

• Coding

First Place: School of Dreams Academy Middle School

• Flight Endurance

First Place: Noah Trujillo, School of Dreams Academy High School

Third Place: Austin Martinez, Los Lunas High School