Fish Camp 2016 was held the first weekend in August to welcome our new students. Counselors led the students through many activities that reinforced Teamwork, Responsibility, Integrity and Perseverance (T.R.I.P.). At the end of the weekend the freshmen were presented with their T-Shirts and took part in the traditional signing.

Welcome Class of 2020!

From April 27th to April 30th, Texas Torque competed in the FIRST World Championships in St. Louis. They were thrilled to attend the event for the sixth year running, having qualified with our Regional Chairman’s Award at the Alamo Regional.

In the qualification matches, They finished qualifications in the 48th position and were selected by the third seeded alliance, headed by team 67, The HOT Team. The other members of alliance were team 5172 Gators and team 3481 Bronc Botz. After a series of intense quarterfinals matches, the alliance advanced to the semifinals of the Newton division, then were eliminated after two matches against the eventual division champions. Despite this elimination, the team is satisfied with their performance at the 2016 Championship and throughout the 2016 competition season as a whole.

Go Texas Torque!

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Academy of Science and Technology sent 5 teams to the 2016 DI Global Finals in Knoxville, TN in May.

Team Brow‐hemian Rhapsody won first place – Get A Clue – Fine Arts Challenge
The winning team members – Maria Rossi, Mary Robbins, Annie Turney, Victoria Li, JustinStobart, Luis Berardi, and Matthew Liu.

Team Be‐leaf‐ers won eighth place – In Plain Sight – Scientific Challenge
The Be‐leaf‐ers members – Smita Centala, Yashi Prasad, Alice Cao, Blake Conklin, Will Beaty, Kaustubh Gopal, and Daniel Pallares.

The following 3 teams also won DI state competitions and advance to DI Global:

The Circle: Jack Overbeck, Makenzie Higdon, Caroline Booth, Nick Esposito, Anna Cunningham, Dylan Stobart, and Jheri Richards. Challenge: Technical.

Spoiler Alert: Kristen Bohnet, Kathleen Cahill, Kelly Conlon, Rachel Luomala, Sania Zia, Alex Kremer and Ryan Weeratunga. Challenge: Fine Art.

The DI Bookworms: Abbey Madeley, Jana Hustedt, Krystal Cardinal, Nivva Emmi, Jack Fluth, Pravin Sivagnanakumar, and Franklin Shi. Challenge: Outreach.

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.