Hoover High Brings Home $10,000 Women in Engineering Grant

nabbed a $10,000 grant after competing in the Goodyear Engineering Career Day at Firestone High School in Akron Saturday.

Hoover won the overall first place trophy and will receive the Goodyear grant to enhance the school's Women in Engineering program.

Plans for use of the funding include giving the opportunity of the women to participate in design competitions, take trips to universities and businesses to further explore the field of engineering, and increase girls’ interest in engineering at a young age. 

Money will be used to interact with elementary and middle school girls who are interested in science and mathematics and grow their interest in the field of engineering through fun and engaging activities.

Thirty Hoover students representing the Hoover Engineering Program and Women in Engineering group participated in Saturday's competition. The students were awarded a first place trophy for best video submission for their video about Hoover High's new Women In Engineering group (the video was filmed and edited by North Canton Middle School eighth-grader Zac Bazzoli).  

High schools also competed in another competition in which the video submission, number of students participating in the Engineering Career Day, results of hands on engineering challenges and a culminating academic challenge were added together to determine a winner. 

The Women in Engineering group was started this year by juniors Katie Casey and Hunter Bazzoli as a way to increase women's interest in the field of engineering.