WEDNESDAY: UC Hosts United States' Largest TEAMS Competition for the Junior Engineering Technical Society

More than 500 high-school students from Ohio and Kentucky will have the opportunity to participate in the Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics, and Science (TEAMS) competition. The TEAMS event is sponsored by the University of Cincinnati’s College of Engineering. The UC competition is the largest TEAMS competition in the nation.

TEAMS is sponsored nationally by JETS, the Junior Engineering Technical Society. More than 50 years old, JETS is a nationwide nonprofit organization that promotes high-school interest nationally in engineering, science, mathematics and technology. JETS programs aim at getting students involved with engineering and preparing for future careers while still in high school.

Each year, more than 20,000 top high-school students and coaches participate in more than 100 TEAMS sites across the country. From this one-day, two-part competition, local, state and national awards and recognition are determined. Each team will compete at the varsity or junior varsity level in one of seven school-based divisions, which are determined by school size and selectivity of admissions. Top-scoring teams in each division in each state are then eligible for national ranking, which will be determined by eligible teams’ performance on Part II of the test.

Awards will be presented at UC on February 15 to the winners of Part I, the regional portion of the test. UC’s College of Engineering will award $35,000 in scholarships for this event. This interscholastic competition helps to prepare students for tomorrow’s world today. Students learn how the math and science concepts they are learning in high school are applied to real-world problems. The TEAMS program encourages tomorrow’s engineers to work cooperatively and think critically.

From last

year’s

JETS TEAMS competition at the University of Cincinnati,

17 competitors

enrolled in the College of Engineering’s fall 2005 class.

UC’s TEAMS competition will take place from approximately 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Tangeman University Center (TUC).

For more information, contact
Julie Burdick, director of pre-admissions (pictured at far left, above)
University of Cincinnati, College of Engineering
(513) 556-5417

Detailed Schedule of Events

List of 2006 Competitors