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“At the moment, we currently have enough returning teams and prospective new team names on the waiting list who wish to be considered for an invitation to Speedfest 2024, that we could easily see the team numbers increase to 60 plus,” Risenhoover said. Risenhoover asked for feedback about the impact and scale of the Speedfest program from educators and the students who participated.

“Too often we teachers push higher academics without implementing concrete, real-life applications of our theoretical lectures,” an educator said. “Speedfest requires students to complete handson work, become an active participant, work as a team to solve a common goal, learn to delegate, learn to lead, learn to overcome failures, practice time management and it gives students more confidence in themselves while they have fun.”

Besides the competition, Speedfest featured senior capstone designs and displays, food vendors and sponsor tents. During breaks, the attendees witnessed demonstrations by the Stillwater RC Flyers, rocket launches by CEAT students on the rocketry team and a CEAT sophomore versus senior race between a rocket car and an autonomous firefighting vehicle from the two teams respectively.