Congratulations Leawood Elementary and Olathe North High School – winners of The 2013 Battle Of The Brains!
Along with taking home $50,000 for their schools, students from each team will work side-by-side with Burns & McDonnell engineers, architects, and construction managers to bring their winning proposals to life – as full-scale science exhibits at Science City at Union Station. And, for the first time in the “Battle of the Brains” contest, TWO grand prize winners were selected to have their proposals transformed into real-life science exhibits at Science City. Both teams beat out over 500 entries to claim the grand prizes in the nation’s most robust K-12 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) competition with unique and compelling entries. The proposed science exhibit by students at Olathe North titled “Tapped Out,” will emphasize the rapid decreases in water resources and the steps that must be taken to help ensure clean water does not become a scarce commodity in the future. Leawood Elementary’s “GeneTech” exhibit will explore the wonder and science behind heredity, genetic conditions and technology, and the history of DNA. ‘
The exhibits will be designed and built during the next 18 months as the students are part of project team. The 2013 “Battle of the Brains” saw 3,500 students from 193 schools in the Kansas City metro area compete for grant money and the opportunity to build a science exhibit at Science City. In addition to the two $50,000 grand prize winners, four runners-up received $5,000 each and 14 schools earned $2,500 each. Winners are:
RUNNERS-UP: $5,000
SCHOOL
PROPOSED IDEA
Cordill Mason Elementary
Every Last Drop
Longview Farm Elementary
Tour de Forces
SECONDARY/7-12
SCHOOL
PROPOSED IDEA
Summit Technology Academy
Wright Into the Future
Winnetonka High School
Aquiforever
HONORABLE MENTIONS – $2,500
ELEMENTARY/K-6
SCHOOL
PROPOSED IDEA
Bonner Springs, Edwardsville and Delaware Ridge Elementary
Down & Dirty – The Science of Urban Farms
Briarcliff Elementary
Brain-E
Cedar Creek Elementary
GloZone
Crestview Elementary
Recycle City
Hazel Grove Elementary
Healthville
Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy
One World One Well
Valley Park Elementary
Listen!
SECONDARY/7-12
SCHOOL
PROPOSED IDEA
Bode Middle School
H2Oh!
Belton High School Freshman Center
Maglev Magic
Blue Springs High School
A Journey Inside the Human Body
Drexel High School
Brain Surge
Olathe East High School
Head to Toe
Pleasant Hill Middle School
Robots in Medicine
Rockhurst High School
3-D Printing in Modern Medicine