In the photo, Dr. Michelle Creech-Eakman (left) speaks to one of the winners, Kingston Dodd (right) from Sandia High School.

Read the full story from the Albuquerque Journal here.

The New Mexico Governor’s statewide STEM Challenge was held last weekend on the UNM campus, and several NMT professors were among the judges for 30 competing teams.

Sandia High School sophomore Kingston Dodd, one of the winners of $500 and a sponsorship from Intel, told the Albuquerque Journal “he might take the funds he was awarded to save for his dream of going to college at New Mexico Tech — or he might buy an Intel computer.”

According to Dr. Michelle Creech-Eakman (Physics), she and four others from NMT judged 30 projects by high school student teams: Dr. Kaarin Goncz (Biology), Dr. Omid Moradian (Mineral Engineering), Dr. Menake Piyasena (Chemistry) and Dr. Krishna Roy (Electrical Engineering).