On May 3, 2020, the AST Senior Gala was held over ZOOM.
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Academy Teams Win at Destination Imagination Global
Congratulations to the team of Andrew Cahill, Nicole Chin, Kayla Kelley, Sarah Mohamed, Paulome Srivastava, Erik Young, and Victoria Youngblood for their stellar performance at the Destination Imagination Global Finals 2015 held in Knoxville, Tennessee. This group of seniors has competed together for three consecutive years but this year the performance earned them a First Place win.
The technical team composed of Caroline Booth, Anna Cunningham, Nicholas Esposito, Makenzie Higdon, Jack Overbeck, Jheri Richards ad Dylan Stobart also had a winning performance and earned Third Place.
Another senior team composed of Collin Bryant, Wenting Chang, Jack Dimpel, Heather Morriss, Priya Srivastava, Kennedy Sterling and Tess Volanski finished Fourth Place with their winning performance.
The team that earned first place selected the challenge Feary Tales that required them to have a fairy tale story with a character with a phobia, an optical illusion, and two types of art. They are very proud of the chameleon costume programmed with lights that changed colors and the animal’s mood changed and the amount of work it took to create it.
DI Global Finals is an international competition with teams from around the world gathering to compete in one of six different academic challenges to highlight their skills in creativity and innovation. This year’s competition hosted more than 17,000 students and volunteers and featured 1400 teams. Nearly twenty percent of the teams were international from 20 countries such as China, Canada, Turkey, Qatar, South Korea and Mexico.
Congratulation to students and sponsors Barbara Lowenberg, William Barrow, and Lyubov Merritt.
Academy Students Participate in the Intel ISEF
Six students participated in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Matthew Caffet, Maggie Steiner, Reagan Spexarth, Michael Bohnet, and the team of Christine Castagna and Matthew Frangos were among the 1700 students from more than 40 countries competing for prizes and scholarships.
Two of our students placed and won Special Awards. Matthew Caffet earned Fourth Place in the Energy: Physical Category and received a Special Award from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. Maggie Steiner earned a Fourth Place Award in the Behavioral and Social Sciences category and received a Special Award from the American Psychological Association.
The students had the opportunity to present their projects to experts in the field and meet representatives from the Special Award agencies. The venue provides the students the very valuable opportunity to meet and network with students from many countries!
Team 1477‐Texas Torque – Competes in FIRST World Championship
Students and mentors traveled to St. Louis, MO April 22-25th, 2015 to compete in the FIRST World Championships. More than 800 teams out of 3000 teams world‐wide qualified for the event.
Texas Torque (name for Team 1477) competed against 73 other teams on the field known as Galileo. The team was selected to be part of an alliance with Team 365 (Miracle Workerz from Wilmington, Delaware) and Team 494 (Martians from Goodrich, Michigan). Due to a robot malfunction the alliance was defeated in the first Quarter Finals. However, another Texas team, 118, the Robonauts from Clear Lake was in the alliance that won the competition.
Go Texas!
AST CLASS OF 2018 END OF YEAR PARTY
The AST Freshman Class (2018) End‐of‐the‐Year Picnic was held on Friday, June 5 at Terramont Park. The weather was beautiful. Over 50 Freshman students came and enjoyed outdoor social fun with Frisbees, basketballs, soccer games and picnic with hot dogs, fruits, desserts and drinks. Many thanks to our Class 2018 representatives Tammey Scarborough and Shelly Maes for organizing this fun event and for the great pictures.
