Immaculate High School Student Engineers CT's Best, 6th Year In A Row

DANBURY, CT — A team from Immaculate High School has won the Real World Design Challenge competition at the state level and will be moving on to the national/international competition in April.

This is the sixth straight year the Brave Engineers have won the "Connecticut Governor’s Challenge."

The RWDC is an annual competition that provides students in grades 9-12 the opportunity to work on real world engineering challenges in a team environment. Each year, students are asked to address a problem that currently confronts leading industries. Students use engineering software to develop their solutions and create presentations that explain their value.

This year's challenge was to create an unmanned aircraft system for wildfire monitoring and mitigation. Immaculate students created a drone, which was nicknamed "Firefly," that met all the criteria of the RWDC Challenge provided, and in several cases exceeded what was required, according to a news release from the school.

“Our Brave Engineers did it again! We are so proud of all the hard work our Immaculate students put into this competition and their passion for STEM shows,” said Jeanine Antonios, Immaculate's Career and Technology Department chair and the team's coach.