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Pine Crest Middle School Engineers Earn First Place at EnergyWhiz Solar Cooker Competition
March 10th 2022
Pine Crest Middle School engineers have earned first and second place at the EnergyWhiz Solar Cooker Competition.
EnergyWhiz, sponsored by the University of Central Florida’s Florida Solar Energy Center® (FSEC) Energy Research Center, the state’s premier energy research center, hosts competitions to encourage students to explore clean energy initiatives.
For the Solar Cooker competition, students were responsible for designing and building a fully operational solar cooking device, documenting the process on a team created web page, and also cooking a dish of their choice using their cooker for a panel of judges. The challenge is to design an effective solar cooker and to pair the operational capability to the type of food cooked.
Toasty Roasty (James Swanson ’27, Jacob Yellin ’27, Sophie Leidner ’27, and Jocelyn McCabe ’27) won first place at the competition, and The Solar Girls (Mia Farber ’26, Ava Goodwich ’26, Jewels Freedman ’26, and Raina Friedman ’26) won second place.
Both teams will move forward to the live cooking competition on April 30, 2022.
Congratulations, and best of luck!
