Students place first in 'Imagine Tomorrow'

Gazette intern reporter

Duncan Mitchell, Samuel Lindstrom, Amanda Culton and Madie Heroff of Pullman Christian School received first place at Alaska Airline's Imagine Tomorrow, a Boeing Aerospace Challenge Thursday, May 26. The teens placed first in the aerospace category for their innovation of technology, with their project “Frostbite.”

Imagine Tomorrow is a challenge for ninth to 12th grade students to expand their minds and use creativity to seek out new methods of transitioning to alternative energy resources. Students forge connections in their communities, as well as create positive change through the research of complex topics related to renewable energy. These topics would allow for the students themselves to innovate technologies, designs or plans to mobilize behavior.

The event is hosted by Washington State University's Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture. There is approximately $100,000 in cash prizes award to high school teams across Washington and Idaho. Awards were given out across more than a dozen categories, ranging from first place prizes worth as much as $1,500 per school and $300 per team member.