2nd Annual ‘P-TECH Engineering Wars’ at Innovare Advancement Center

P-Tech Students Discussing with Whiteboard

ROME, N.Y. (WUTR/WFXV/WPNY) – On Friday, October 14th, Students from the Oneida-Herkimer-Madison BOCES (OMH) Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) program competed in the second annual ‘Engineering Wars’ at Innovare Advancement Center in Rome.

Tenth-grade students from ten schools across the state were teamed up and hard at work designing, building, testing, and then catapulting metal spheres with their ‘Sorting Mechanisms’ before a panel of judges from Trenton Technology. The team who could sort and launch their ball the furthest was the winner. . .

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