MIDDLETOWN, NJ — A highschool scholar from Middletown did effectively at a science competitors held March 7 at Toms River East High School.
Dolan Dunnigan is within the eleventh grade at Marine Academy of Science and Technology (MAST), the vo-tech college on Sandy Hook. He and three of his MAST classmates competed within the East Coast Space Settlement Design Competition.
The college students got a fictional process they’d to make use of real-life science to resolve: Figure out find out how to mine uncooked supplies on Venus and transport them a settlement in house.
The proposal created by Dunnigan’s workforce was chosen because the winner by the judges. His workforce was made up of: MAST sophomore Daniel Chiu of Edison and MAST juniors Noah Eckert of Aberdeen and Jason Samuel of Freehold.
Chiu received the day’s prime prize, receiving the the competitors’s Paul Stenzel STEM Pioneer Award, recognizing distinctive design ingenuity and innovation.
“This experience pushes students to imagine ambitious futures while also considering responsible and human-centered design,” stated MAST expertise research instructor Wendy Green. “The skills they practice — collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, and resilience — extend far beyond the competition.”
The East Coast Space Settlement Design Competition is modeled after actual aerospace trade proposal processes and is affiliated with the internationally acknowledged International Space Settlement Design Competition.
According to U.S. News & World Report, MAST ranks among the many greatest excessive colleges in New Jersey and the nation. MAST ranks third in Monmouth County and eleventh in New Jersey.