South Dakota High Schoolers Win International Honors

Posted on Monday, June 16, 2008

Garretson High School students Adam Halverson and Anthony Winterton won third place in the team category at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Atlanta, Ga. May 11-16. The two qualified by winning the eastern South Dakota Science and Engineering Fair at South Dakota State University in March.

This year is the first time since 2004 students from South Dakota have received grant awards from the Intel ISEF, according to Madeleine Rose, director of the science and engineering fair.

The teams winning project was a robot named VSR1 Talos which the boys built and programmed to mimic some human movements, like walking forward and turning right or left.