They Came. They Saw. They WON!

eCYBERMISSION's National Judging & Educational Event Comes to a Close with Our 2019 National Champs!

Another great NJ&EE is in the books and four lucky teams took home the coveted National Winner prize! Teams in 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th grades from across the United States of American and the internationally-located DoDEA Schools participated in our year-long online STEM competition and a select group of 20 teams qualified to attend our National Event. After an exciting week of labs, fun in Washington DC and intense judging, four outstanding teams took home the top prizes of the week.

See the lucky winners...

6th Grade: 

H.O.T.C.A.R.S, Lubbock, Texas

Alexa Tindall, Ethan Djajadi and Josiah Morales worked with Team Advisor Laura Wilbanks to help combat the issue of hot car related deaths by creating a device reminding parents when their children are still in the car.

7th Grade: 

Oh, Deer!, Lubbock, Texas

Isaiah Baier, Aaron Barbee, Caleb Cole-Smith and Dimitrio Martinez worked with Team Advisor Laura Wilbanks to solve the problem of deer related automobile accidents by using flora illumination.

8th Grade: 

Antastic Acids, Madison, Alabama

Neha Chopade, Puja Chopade, and Pranav Somu worked with Team Advisor Beena Chopade and came up with an innovative solution to non-recyclable multilayered food packaging which involves separating the packaging’s individual layers so that each component can be recovered in its original form.

9th Grade: 

Phantastic Phage Phinders, West Jordan, Utah

Kate Watson, Rachel Amedee, Abigail Atkinson and Gavin Grose worked with Team Advisor Lora Gibbons to identify isolated bacteriophages within the E. coli samples that could eventually be developed into two products that would serve either as a method of bacteria detection, or a method of bacteria elimination.

These amazing teams are proof that hard work pays off! Each member of the national finalist teams received a total of $4,000 in U.S. E.E. Savings Bonds (matured value), and each member of the national winning teams received a total of $9,000 U.S. E.E. Savings Bonds (matured value) each. “The creativity and enthusiasm that students bring to the eCYBERMISSION competition every year is truly inspiring, and that has been particular true this week at NJ&EE,” said Christina Weber, AEOP Cooperative Agreement Manager. “The national winners, who have made it through this rigorous process, represent the best in the country and should take great pride in their success.”

These winning teams were chosen from 20 national finalist teams, which were selected from 5,097 teams that entered the 2018 competition. Since the program’s inception in 2002, eCYBERMISSION has awarded state, regional and national competition winners more than $10 million in U.S. Savings Bonds.

You can join the mission too and win big next year, it's that easy. It's free to sign up, free to participate and free to attend nationals if you make it! Sign up in August as registration for #ecyber20 opens. Accept the challenge, join the mission.

-Mission Control