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<\/a>These are only four products designed, created and promoted by student teams at the 2016 Maker Expo Feb. 18. The school division\u2019s Office of Technical and Career Education hosted the event that challenged students to develop and design a product to be produced on a 3D printer.<\/p>\nIn the pre-production phase of the Maker Expo, students worked after school using materials provided by Junior Achievement of Hampton Roads to produce a prototype that fit one of the following three themes: environmental, technology or wearables\/fashion. Each team was also required to produce a product infomercial to be judged in advance of the Maker Expo event.<\/p>\n
During the second phase of the Maker Expo, students used desktop 3D printers at the event to produce as many products as possible in one hour in addition to delivering a three-minute pitch to judges to explain and promote their creations.<\/p>\n
Were they nervous to see the judges?<\/p>\n The four-member team responded in unison with three \u201cyeses\u201d and one \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cShe has the hardest part,\u201d said one student in defense of his teammate\u2019s negative reply. \u201cShe has all the math.\u201d<\/p>\n A second, more confident White Oaks team member said, \u201cI practiced last night. Then I had a dream about it after I fell asleep.\u201d<\/p>\n Their practice paid off with a fourth-place overall finish among elementary schools and a second-place award for product packaging.<\/p>\n Overall Winners \u2013 Elementary School Level<\/strong><\/p>\n First place: Surf Troopers, Ocean Lakes<\/p>\n Second place: Wave Riders, Ocean Lakes<\/p>\n Third place: Team Charmers, Centerville<\/p>\n Fourth place: Wire Clippies, White Oaks<\/p>\n Overall Winners \u2013 Middle School Level<\/strong><\/p>\n First place: Team to the 4th<\/sup> Power, Kemps Landing\/Old Donation<\/p>\n Second place: Life Savers, Bayside<\/p>\n Third place: Team 3D Office, Kemps Landing\/Old Donation<\/p>\n Fourth place: KCQ Team, Virginia Beach<\/p>\n Overall Winners \u2013 High School Level<\/strong><\/p>\n First place: Team A, Green Run Collegiate<\/p>\n Second place: Femina Ingenia, Landstown<\/p>\n Third place: Somoto Co., Advanced Technology Center<\/p>\n Infomerical Winners \u2013 Elementary School Level<\/strong><\/p>\n First place: Super Space 3D, Christopher Farms<\/p>\n Second place: 4gineers, Cooke<\/p>\n Third place: 3D Legends, Thoroughgood<\/p>\n Infomerical Winners \u2013 Middle School Level<\/strong><\/p>\n First place: E-Z Pop, Corporate Landing<\/p>\n Second place: Team A, Great Neck<\/p>\n Third place: KCQ Team, Virginia Beach<\/p>\n Infomerical Winners \u2013 High School Level<\/strong><\/p>\n First place: ChargIT, Ocean Lakes<\/p>\n Second place: Salem 3D Devils, Salem<\/p>\n Third place: Team Gold, Tallwood<\/p>\n Product Packaging Winners \u2013 Elementary School Level<\/strong><\/p>\n First place: Sustain-A-Stuff, Kemps Landing\/Old Donation<\/p>\n Second place: Wire Clippies, White Oaks<\/p>\n Third place: Helping Hands, Providence<\/p>\n Product Packaging Winners \u2013 Middle School Level<\/strong><\/p>\n First place: E-Z Pop, Corporate Landing<\/p>\n Second place: Team B, Great Neck<\/p>\n Third place: KCQ Team, Virginia Beach<\/p>\n Product Packaging Winners \u2013 High School Level<\/strong><\/p>\n First place: Salem 3D Devils, Salem<\/p>\n Second place: PS Senior Class, Technical and Career Education Center<\/p>\n Third place: ChargIT, Ocean Lakes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" White Oaks Elementary School students created \u201cEye Jewels\u201d to dress up eyeglasses or sunglasses and help build self-confidence. Larkspur Middle School students designed \u201cE-wrap\u201d\u00a0to keep your ear phones from getting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-4790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-stem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4790"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6082,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions\/6082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Before their Maker Expo presentation, the Wire Clippies team from White Oaks Elementary School practiced in a corner.\u00a0They demonstrated how their clips could hold together a wrapped USB chord, complete with a piece that allows users to attach the clip on their key chains or belt loops.<\/p>\n<\/a>Check out the complete list of winners below and see event photos on Facebook<\/a> and the awards ceremony video on Periscope<\/a>.\u00a0The top three teams from each level advance to compete at the school division\u2019s 2016 STEM Robotics, Maker and Cyber Security Challenge \u2013 also known as the STEM Trifecta<\/a> \u2013 at the Virginia Beach Convention Center June 3.<\/p>\n