NJ Institute of Tech Hosts Young Scientists in STEM Competition

A college has once again hosted a science competition for middle and high school students. The New Jersey Institute of Technology, which opened its first computer lab some 65 years ago, welcomed 700 students to participate in its annual New Jersey Science Olympiad. Participants competed in teams on 19 activities designed to test their STEM skills. Among the contests for this year's games were: Boomilever, in which teams designed and built a device to support minimum load with the highest structural efficiency; Disease detective, where students used their investigative skills to study disease, injury, health and disability in groups of people; Machines, in which participants tackled a written test on simple and compound machine concepts and constructed a lever-based measuring device for determining the ratio between two masses; and Ornithology, to test students' knowledge of North American birds.