2022 National Engineering Month

PEO York Chapter Virtual Engineering Competition

The 2022 PEO York Chapter Virtual Engineering Competition occurred on March 27, 2022. 12 teams of 4 participated in the junior (Gr. 8-10) competition and 9 teams of 4 participated in the combined (Gr. 8-12) competition. Please check out the list of the top teams below.

Junior Competition - Room 1 Winners

1st Place - Team Cardinal Carter (Cardinal Carter Catholic High School - York Catholic District School Board)

Team Members: Cynthia Sun, Dina Rabiei Mazraeshahi, Lilia Ghazvinian, and Hannah Lawrie

2nd Place - Team Parkview She-Panthers (Parkview Public School - York Region District School Board)

Team Members: Vida Moin, Lindsay Harrison, Victoria Kalogirosa, and Madeline Choi

Junior Competition - Room 2 Winners

1st Place - Team Intellectuals x Engine-ering (La Renaissance secondary school, French School Catholic York Region - MonAvenir)

Team Members: Noah Ceolin, Hilda Lee, Mikayla Chen, and Kevin El-Helou

2nd Place - Team Adrienne Clarkson PS (Adrienne Clarkson PS - York Region District School Board)

Team Members: Henry Du, Aidan Ng, Oscar He, and Nathan Nearing

Combined Competition - Winners

1st Place - Team Structure^4 (La Renaissance secondary school, French School Catholic York Region - MonAvenir)

Team Members: Dean Priftakis, George Salib, Zev Sefton, Gosha Babakhanov

2nd Place - Team St. Robert CHS (St. Robert Catholic High School - York Catholic District School Board)

Team Members: Jason Huang, Areez Hirani, Eric Liu, Daniel Wu

3rd Place - Team In the Clouds ( Maple High School, Emily Carr Secondary School - York Region District School Board)

Team Members: Emma Pollett, Saher Rashid, Chloe Houvardas, Lynette Wong

4th Place - Team Green Teen Geeks (St. Brother Andre CHS - York Catholic District School Board)

Team Members: Michael Carnie, Sheehan Lloyd, Presley Prince, Nicholas Ali

Students from Grades 8 - 12 will be presented with a real-life engineering problem. Teams must design a

detailed solution to a large-scale engineering problem. The teams will then pitch the solution to the client (judges).

 

Students will form teams of 4 to research ideas, generate deliverables, and prepare their presentation over 3 weeks. Each team is required to register (one registration per team with all names in registration). To maximize the number of schools attending within the limited spots, currently we are allowing a maximum of one team per school per competition level. Teams must have exactly 4 students (no more, no less). It is the duty of the students to form a team and register together.

 

The Virtual Engineering Competition is jointly hosted by National Engineering Month and PEO York Chapter.

Competition Overview

Date: February 28 – March 27th, 2022

Location: Virtual / Zoom

Levels: Junior: Grade 8 – 10, Combined: Grade 8 - 12

Prize: Gift cards of up to $100 for each member in the top three for each level, sent to the email associated with the ticket

Eligibility: Students must attend a school that is physically located in York Region. Limit of one team per school per competition level. Teams must have exactly 4 students (no more, no less)

Registration:

Junior (Gr. 8-10): https://vec2022-junior.eventbrite.ca

Combined (formerly Senior) (Gr. 8-12): https://vec2022-senior.eventbrite.ca

Competition Schedule - Important Dates

Dates
Activity
February 28, 2022

Problem Statement is released on peoyork.com website

March 4, 2022

Registration Deadline

March 6, 2022

Competition Kickoff and Info Session (Recommended)

March 4 – 24, 2022

Student teams prepare design and project deliverables

March 24, 2022 

Competition Deliverables Submission Deadline

Deliverables include one PowerPoint for 8-minute presentation and one plan drawing of the proposed design

March 27, 2022

Competition Day – Presentation to Judges on Zoom

Junior (Gr. 8 – 10) Competition: 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Combined (Gr. 11 – 12) Competition: 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM

Teams to present their solutions in 8-minute PowerPoint Presentations

Each presentation will be followed by 5-minute Q&A from judges

April 6 -12, 2022

Winners are announced

Competition Deliverables

Competition deliverables include the following

  1. Powerpoint Presentation to be presented to judges on Competition Day (in ppt, pptx, or PDF)
  2. One site plan (drawing) of the team's proposed design for the property (PDF)

Competititon Day Details

Levels:

  • Junior (Gr. 8 – 10) Competition: 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
  • Combined (formerly Senior) (Gr. 8 – 12) Competition: 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM

Teams to present their solutions in 8-minute PowerPoint Presentations live on Zoom. Video recordings will NOT be accepted as subsitutes for live presentations. All team members must be present at the presentation.

Each presentation will be followed by 5-minute Q&A from judges

Judges will evaluate each of the teams based on their presentations and their answers to the questions.

Problem Statement and Evaluation Criteria

Info Session Video