Our What’s So Cool About Manufacturing Middle School Student Video Contest Program has officially completed for the 2023-2024 school year! 🎬 It was an extremely successful program year and we are so proud of the hard work put in by the student teams, teacher coaches, and featured manufacturers. 👏🎉
Pittsburgh Central Regional Contest
Pittsburgh Central consisted of 13 teams from Armstrong, Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Lawrence, and Washington counties! These 13 teams pulled in a total of 276,861 viewer’s choice votes during their week of online voting! We celebrated these 13 teams with an awards ceremony on April 10th at Mill 19. The students began their day at Mill 19 with keynote speakers from Moonshot Museum and Astrobotic to learn about how Pittsburgh manufacturing is getting us back onto the moon! 🌑🚀 After the keynote portion of the ceremony, the winners were announced. There was excitement flying through the room celebrating fellow teams on their wins. The excitement didn’t stop there! After the ceremony, students had the opportunity to rotate through three activity sessions including a tour of Mill 19 featuring demos conducted by our friends at ARM Institute and CMU’s Manufacturing Futures Institute, a hands-on 3D printing pen activity with our friends at BotsIQ, and a manufacturing expo featuring 10 companies!
Congratulations to our Pittsburgh Central winners!
Best Overall Video: 1st Place: Mount Lebanon (Haemonetics); 2nd Place: Butler Area Team 1 (Butler Technologies, Inc.)
Viewers Choice: 1st Place: Apollo Ridge (JV Manufacturing); 2nd Place: Butler Area Team 2 (Keystone Ridge Designs)
Outstanding Creativity: 1st Place: Blackhawk (Schroeder Industries); 2nd Place: Moon Area (Aero Tech Designs)
Exceptional Use of Technology: Moon Area (Aero Tech Designs)
Best Manufacturing Message: 1st Place: Mount Lebanon (Haemonetics); 2nd Place: Butler Area Team 1 (Butler Technologies, Inc.)
Outstanding Rookie School: CLASS Academy (ARDEX Americas)
Best Promotion: Freeport Area (JSP International)
Headed to Statewide Awards: Mount Lebanon (Haemonetics)
Pittsburgh East Regional Contest
Pittsburgh East consisted of 10 teams from Cambria, Fayette, Indiana, Somerset, and Westmoreland counties! These 10 teams pulled in a total of 65,137 viewer’s choice votes during their week of online voting! We celebrated these 10 teams with an awards ceremony on April 17th at Westmoreland County Community College’s Advanced Technology Center. The students began their day with an insightful panel discussion featuring two of our Manufacturing Navigators from MECCO and Milliken & Co. to learn about what they do at their companies and how they got into manufacturing. 🏭 Then, the winners were announced which came with cheering and excitement from all! After the ceremony portion the students were broken into three groups to rotate through activity sessions including a tour of the Advanced Technology Center, a hands-on activity with WCCC’s robotics professor, and a manufacturing expo featuring 8 companies!
Congratulations to our Pittsburgh East winners!
Best Overall Video: 1st Place: Greater Johnstown (JWF Industries); 2nd Place: Somerset Area (ASSA Abloy)
Viewers Choice: 1st Place: Shanksville-Stonycreek (Lockheed Martin AeroParts, Inc.); 2nd Place: River Valley (Miller Fabrication Solutions)
Outstanding Creativity: 1st Place: Greater Johnstown (JWF Industries); 2nd Place: Shanksville-Stonycreek (Lockheed Martin AeroParts, Inc.); 3rd Place: Connellsville (Heartland Fabrication)
Exceptional Use of Technology: Greater Johnstown (JWF Industries)
Best Manufacturing Message: 1st Place: Somerset Area (ASSA Abloy); 2nd Place: Norwin (General Carbide Corporation)
Outstanding Rookie School: 1st Place: Franklin Regional (Intervala); 2nd Place: River Valley (Miller Fabrication Solutions)
Best Promotion: Shanksville-Stonycreek (Lockheed Martin AeroParts, Inc.)
Headed to Statewide Awards: Greater Johnstown (JWF Industries)
Thank you to students at Intermediate Unit 1 McMurray Campus for designing and manufacturing our awards this year! They looked awesome!
Watch both award ceremonies and all student videos from the 2023-2024 WSCAM Pittsburgh contests here.
Learn more about this statewide initiative: whatssocool.org