Tech Wars Invade NCCC
SANBORN, N.Y. (Jan. 7, 2009) – Niagara County Community College hosts its 12th annual Tech Wars on January 14 from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. in the NCCC fine arts auditorium and main gym.
Tech Wars is a technology fair for all middle and high school technology students with competitions in all disciplines of technology education that allows students an opportunity to display and demonstrate their technological abilities. Students can enter any project from drawings to robots or bring any project and enter it in the Static/Dynamic Project Display category.
Over 800 middle school and high school students and faculty from 20 Western New York school districts will compete in the following events: Autonomous Robot, Bridge Building, Musical Instrument, Short Track CO2 Dragster, Basic Stamp, Mousetrap Car, Sumo, Architectural Design, Drafting, RC Heavyweight Sumo Robots, VEX Robotics, T-shirt Design and Video Production. Awards will be handed out to winners in each category.
Events begin at 9:30 a.m. with quarterfinals at 11 a.m. and semifinals at noon. Finals for events will be held at 12:45 p.m. and the awards ceremony begins at 1:30 p.m.
In 2008, Tech Wars hosted 580 middle and high school students from 20 school districts along with another 100 faculty and staff from those districts for a turnout of 680. The Lockport School District took home the 11th annual Tech Wars title and returns to defend its title.
Participating school districts include:
Barker Central Schools
Buffalo Academy of Science
Cheektowaga Central Schools
Clarence School District
Cleveland Hill Central Schools
Frontier Central Schools
Grand Island School District
Hamburg School District
Harkness Career - BOCES
LaSalle Prep School
Lewiston-Porter Central School District
Lockport School District
Newfane Central School District
Niagara-Wheatfield School District
North Tonawanda City School District
Stanley Falk School-Buffalo
Starpoint Central School District
Sweet Home Central School District
Tonawanda City Schools
Wilson Central School District
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