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Swofford and Clark, took state honors in May before advancing to this competition, designed like the television program “It’s Academic," on the national level.
At the national competition, the three students were required to take individual written examinations consisting of 50 multiple-choice-type questions.
Rappahannock County High School teacher and Technology Students Association (TSA) advisor Scott Currie said the questions asked “encompass technology in the broadest sense with applications from carpentry to electronics.”
From the score on the written exam, 10 finalist teams for the oral part of the competition were selected.
In the written competition, Clark and Swofford placed within the top 10, though as a team the group did not compete.
Swofford and Clark were recognized at the assembly and given certificates noting their accomplishment.
It is not often that one finds NASA astronauts and Lego toys giving presentations at the same convention but, with technology as their similar point, both showed for the convention—bringing technology into the classroom their ultimate goals.
From bridge building to desk-top publishing, from radio control cars to specially designed model homes and hand-crafted grandfather clocks, technology students tested their wits and their skill in more
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