Monday, May 5, 2014 - Davenport West High School Robotics Team

Davenport West High School’s Falcon Fever is the 2014 Iowa State winner of the Real World Design Challenge. Teams from Clinton, Central Lee, Marshalltown and Davenport West competed in this year’s challenge.   The team from West High School will now represent Iowa in the national challenge which will be held in Washington D.C. in November. This is the third state title for Davenport West High School.  Team members include: Pardeep Saini (Senior), Derek Geiken (Senior), Nicole Kraft (Senior), Tuyen Nguyen (Junior) and Carina Grady (Junior).  Join us on Monday to meet a few of the team members and hear more about their project.

The Real World Design Challenge (RWDC) is an annual competition that provides high school students, grades 9-12, the opportunity to work on real world engineering challenges in a team environment. Each year, student teams are asked to address a challenge that confronts our nation's leading industries. Students utilize professional engineering software to develop their solutions and also generate presentations that convincingly demonstrate the value of their solutions. The RWDC provides students with opportunities to apply the lessons of the classroom to the technical problems that are being faced in the workplace.  This 2014 challenge was to increase corn crop yield by detecting the European Corn Borer through the use of a UAV.