Lockport students have right IDEA: Many take home awards at drafting and design competition

Lockport Township High School drafting and design students participated in the Illinois Design Educators Association (IDEA) regional competition held March 3 at Joliet Junior College.

The 27 LTHS students include Matthew Stonis, Jon Naughton and Daniel Arechiga in Introductory Computer Aided Drafting; Patrick Dilger, Noah Panos and Olivia Smolen in Architecture 3D Drafting; Giovanni Onesto, Jack Lyons and Adriana Watson in Machine Computer Aided Drafting; Kayla Hill, Joanna Findura, Muhammad Zegar, Emma Oster, Joe Specht and Quinn Robinson in 3D Solids; Nick Lindau, Marshall McCann, Nathan Bulthuis, Scott Szymkowiak and Jacob Miller in Assembly Modeling; the team of Klaudia Klepczarek, Bianca Banich, Alexa Kocsis and Cole Schlusemann in Architecture Design; and the team of Kayley Uy, Erik Firganek and Alek Trafton in Engineering Design.

CAD/Drafting students from nine schools in the Three Rivers Education for Employment System attended this year’s competition.

In the CAD contests, the students are given a drawing problem to solve and draw in an hour-and-a-half time limit. In the team divisions, the students are presented with a design problem in January to solve and then present their solutions at regionals. The designs are graded by architects, engineers, college students and college instructors.

The students who place in the top two in each CAD category advance to the state competition and the first finishers in the team/design competitions advance to state competition on April 14 at Illinois State University.

The following LTHS students placed at regionals and qualified for state:

• Giovanni Onesto – second in Machine CAD

• Matthew Stonis – first in Introductory CAD

• Kayla Hill – first in 3D Solids CAD

• Team of Klaudia Klepczarek, Bianca Banich, Alexa Kocsis and Cole Schlusemann in Architecture Design – first in Architecture Design

The following LTHS students placed at regionals but did not qualify for state:

• Team of Kayley Uy, Erik Firganek and Alek Trafton in Engineering Design – second in Engineering Design

This is the second consecutive year that Giovanni Onesto and Kayla Hill have qualified for state.

LTHS teachers Jeff Brown and Corey Duzan led the students.