Friday was a very busy day beginning with Donut Day and ending with Trivia Night. P.A.S.T. organized a very challenging game.
Ultimately, eleven teams competed. Some teams consisted of all students or all parents while others were multi‐generational.

The winning team was the Dead Poker Society.

Our very own Dr. Kyle Scarborough served as the Master of Ceremonies.

Over spring break a large group of students toured the ExxonMobil Baytown Refinery. It is the largest petroleum refinery in the U.S. The students were
introduced to each of the major process units in the petroleum and chemical refining process.

Following the refinery exploration students toured the Houston Ship Channel, a port ranked first in the U.S. in export tonnage.

Parents of the Academy of Science and Technology, P.A.S.T. provided the charter bus which took students on both tours.

More than 50 students from Conroe ISD traveled to the State Science and Engineering Fair Apr 1st-3rd with sponsors. Of this number, the Academy sent 33 students‐a record number. The results for the Academy appear below:

Intel Finalist – Daniel Duran
First Place: Daniel Duran, Hannah Meiseles, Andrew Yu, and the team of Megan Alam and Juliana Steward.
Second Place: Margaret Steiner and the team of Vidisha Ganesh and Jenny Qu
Third Place: Kevin Svetlitski and Matthew Winningham

Special Awards:
Office of Naval Research‐ Margaret Steiner and Hannah Meiseles
Texas Board of Professional Engineers Future Engineers‐team of Hina Akbar and Annie Zhang

Six students were finalists at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair: Nicholas Bracci, Andrew Kim, Daniel Duran, Hannah Meiseles and the team of Megan Alam and Juliana Steward. They joined more than 1700 other students from 77 countries at this year’s competition.

Special Awards:
Nicholas Bracci- 10th grade Society of Engineering Mechanics
Hannah Meiseles – 11th grade American Chemical Society

Place Awards:
Hannah Meiseles – 11th grade Fourth Place in Energy: Chemical
Andrew Kim – 10th grade Third Place in Plant Science

The Class of 2019 attended Fish Camp 2015 held at the YMCA Camp Cullen during July. Students explored much of the 500 acre campus as they participated in activities designed to reinforce Teamwork, Responsibility, Integrity and Perseverance or T.R.I.P. Many upperclassmen served as counselors and were responsible for helping the Fish acclimate not only to the camp experience but also learn the culture of the Academy. The experience culminated with the Fish receiving their shirts and having each other sign them!

Thank you to the many parent volunteers, teachers and counselors who made this event a success.

Special thanks go to – Nirmala Panja, Tasha Rees, Jae and Dan Kim, who coordinate the Fish Camp volunteers;
Nirmala & Srinivas Panja, Luisa Floris, Susan Powers, Melissa Yang, Sean Yu, Noushin Hart, Palmira Miner, Myrna & Patrick Frost, Kenneth Miner, Gary Winningham, who Chaperoned over the weekend;
and photographers – David Kaiser, Oliver Camargo, Susan Powers, Melissa Yang and Kenneth Miner.