Hawkins STEM

We are PROUD of you!! Congratulations to the HISD Middle School & High School students who competed at TSA (Technical Students Association) at Longview High School on Monday and Tuesday. For a small school, our students triumphed over the 4A and 5A schools in many events. Several of them (names with a *) will continue to State TSA in Fort Worth!

High School First Place Winners:
1st place Catapult: Jaykob Dodd*, Kashtin Upchurch*, Michael Wick*
1st place: Semiconductor Design: Miquel Acatitclan*
1st place Academic Display: Devin Pruitt*
1st Place 3D Virtual/Flythrough Landscape Design: Devin Pruitt*
1st place GFX Manufacturing Design: Seth Crane*
1st place GFX Promotional Design: Kashtin Upchurch*
1st place GFX Biotechnology Design: Logan Kapphahan*
1st place Close Up Photo: Aiden Urquhart*
1st place Color Special Effects Photo: Devin Pruitt*
1st place Fashion Photography: Jenna Trull*
1st place Fashion Design and Technology: Malaea Theno and Joy Broderick*

HS 2nd Place Winners:
2nd place Structural Design & Engineering: Seth Crane and Gradyn McCrummen*
2nd place GFX Engineering Design: Jolie Jordan Wright*
2nd place Dragster: Evan Prater*
2nd Place GFX Manufacturing: Evan Prater*
2nd place Music Production: Nate Sisk
2nd place Computer Generated Art: Miguel Acatitlan
2nd place Children's Story Book: Logan Kapphahn and Jenna Trull*
2nd place Color Special Effects Photo: Aiden Urquhart

HS 3rd Place Winners:
3rd place Dragster: Carson Hazel*
3rd place GFX Manufacturing: Cameron Johnson*
3rd place Autocad: Evan Prater*
3rd place GFX Engineering Design: Gradyn McCrummen*
3rd place Color Close Up Photo: Troy Conley

HS 4th Place Winners:
4th place GFX Engineering Design: Carson Hazel*
4th Place GFX Promo Design: Malaea Theno*
4th place B&W photo: Jaykob Dodd

Middle School 3rd place Winners:
Brady Lawson & Levi Wilcox, Computer Coding 3rd place
Ryder Conover & Eli White, Solar Car, 3rd Place

We have a lot of awesome projects ahead of us this year! One that is am particularly nerding-out on is a recycled plastic building blocks project. Students will be learning about the properties of different types of plastic and how to process their own recycled materials. Along the way they will need to design and build a shredder machine and an extrusion machine. They will also have to design and create their own blocks and building materials and the molds to go with them. Ought to be fun!

Students are trying to finish up some last minute projects!

I apologize. As the school year picks up steam, I typically forget to take pictures and post them here. Here is a smattering of some of the things our students have been doing. They've designed mechanical devices to move thousand pound logs, used subtractive technologies to create signs, experimented with the chemical reactions involved in the mixing of epoxy resin, sheared metal plates, done some light welding, built digital and physical prototypes, built bridges, studied aerodynamics while designing CO2 cars, built and rebuilt robots, programmed microcontrollers, and done plenty of math along the way. When we give them a chance, they can get really creative with some of their designs! For every picture here, there are five more than I forgot to take. Sorry about that! But here is a small sample of what our students have been doing in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

It's too nice outside to work indoors!

We have had lots going in, and I haven’t been posting much. Finishing a rocking chair, picnic tables, and we have a coffee table in the works!

Our sawmill is set up and ready for students to start learning how to use it! If anyone has trees/logs they would like to donate, just let me know!

We have a sawmill arriving on Friday! Students will get to experience the process of how wood goes from tree to lumber. They will have to put it together first though 😝 More pictures to come!

A quick CNC project knocked out in a day!