AES Tech Team Rocks at State Competition

The State Technology Competition was held on Saturday, April 30th at the Montgomery Performing Arts Center.  Ten AES 4th grade GATE students competed!  All of these students won 1st or 2nd place at the regional technology competition and were able to advance to the state level.  We had a BLAST in Montgomery!  On Friday night, many of the families ate dinner together at Red Robin (an AES Tech Team tradition for 8 years now!), we celebrated Alexander's birthday, and we spent the day Saturday as an AES family at the competition.

Each project was presented on the stage at the Montgomery Performing Arts Center.  After a long day of presenting projects, the awards were announced.  ALL of our students presented their high quality projects and did a great job!  I am super proud of each!

State winners were......

Jaxon Cooper and Will Paschal - 1st place for their website about the Dominican Republic

Melvin Benitez won 3rd place for his website about Volcanoes

Emma Buck won 3rd place for her website about the Titanic

Gracyn Spicer, Kailyn Boman, and Ava Owens won 2nd place for their video production about Ancient Egypt

It was a great weekend with great kids, great families, and lots of fun!  Congratulations to all!

AES State Tech Team comes home with trophies!

These students are WINNERS!!!  They are winners to me every day...but on April 25th, they proved themselves to be winners at the state level!  Nine AES tech team members traveled with their families to compete in the state technology competition.  They each represented our school with such class!  They were polite and professional in their conversations with the judges.  I was proud even before the awards program began!

I told the students before we left for competition that it was highly unlikely and probably impossible for all of us to win, but that if someone from our team won something, we would all be excited that our school had a winner.  They proved me wrong that day.  THEY ALL WON A PRIZE AT STATE!  That has never happened to an AES tech team!  Wow.  I knew their projects were great.  They knew their projects were great.  We are so thankful that they judges also recognized the exceptional quality of the hard work and effort these students used in created their tech projects.  What a great day!

Lily won 2nd place for her Keynote about Walt Disney.

Cameron won Honorable Mention for his Keynote about Barry Sanders.

Will  was also a team member, but was unable to attend competition...so Cameron won it for both of them!

Ainsley and Victor won 2nd place for their Video Production of "The Mad Scientists!"

Evan and Courtney won 2nd place for their website about the Titanic.

Ken won 2nd place for his website about Japan.

Ethan won 3rd place for his website about Dinosaurs.  

His friend, Brandon, helped create the website but was unable attend state, so Brandon won this for both of them!

Emilee's video about Franklin Delano Roosevelt won Honorable Mention!

And...my daughter, Emilie, won 1st place for her magazine called, Truly Emilie.  She is on the Evans Elementary Tech Team.

Congratulations to ALL of these kiddos!