What We're Doing

    The Engineering Club at Thurston High School was created to fill a gap at the school. The new state graduation requirements have left students with little time to explore areas of science they might be interested in, and we feel that this creates a vacuum for critical thinking/outside-the-box/problem solving that standardized tests can't measure. Students involved in the E-Club will be working with their hands while learning to think with their heads to find solutions to extraordinary problems.

    In the Fall of 2009, THS will partner with the Convergence Education Foundation to participate in the 1st Annual Aero IVD competition. The competition is multi-tiered. First, there is mastery of basic knowledge of aviation including everything from vocabulary to the fundamental physical principles involved. Secondly, competitors will be required to re-engineer a radio controlled helicopter to create the capability to pick up and place objects. Third, and possibly most enjoyable, students will be required to fly both an r/c helicopter and r/c airplane in competition at the Rock Financial Showplace in Novi, sometime in February. 

    But the THS E-Club is more than the Aero IVD competition. Students will meet weekly to discuss possible solutions to problems engineers face on a daily basis and to participate in various hands-on projects. Participation in the E-Club will be limited to 15-20 students and those involved will be required to maintain GPA requirements and remain free of any behavior violations.