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Rockwood Seniors Earn PLTW Award, Honored at STEM Signing Day

Rockwood students smile in six different pictures at PLTW and STEM Signing Day events.
Rockwood Seniors Earn PLTW Award, Honored at STEM Signing Day

Rockwood Summit High senior Caleigh O'Neill earned the Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Biomedical Innovation Scholarship, and five Rockwood seniors -- Landen Baan and Liliana Balanay from Eureka High, Logan Green from Lafayette High, Jonah Roberts from Rockwood Summit and Hridhay Suswaram from Marquette -- participated in the Missouri STEM Signing Day and Scholarship Award Ceremony, both on April 25.

The third annual PLTW Senior Showcase, organized by the St. Louis Regional STEM Learning Ecosystem, celebrates senior PLTW students by giving them a chance to present their capstone project from their Engineering Design and Development and Biomedical Innovation courses for their peers, friends, family, educators, business and community members. The event includes a presentation of the scholarship awards for the online scholarship competition. 

A Rockwood student smiles with her PLTW Award

This year's event was held at the Missouri Botanical Garden, and O'Neill earned the scholarship for her project, "NouriSip: A Progressive Baby Bottle Cap Innovation."

The Missouri STEM Signing Day and Scholarship Award Ceremony, organized by the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry, celebrates Missouri high school seniors as they make their commitments to study a STEM field – science, technology, engineering or mathematics – at a state four-year or two-year college or technical school. This year's event was held at the Saint Louis Science Center.

Baan, Balanay, Green, Roberts and Suswaram were among 28 students featured at this year's ceremony.

  • Baan plans to study engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology.
  • Balanay plans to study medical laboratory science at Saint Louis University.
  • Green plans to study engineering.
  • Roberts plans to study wildlife conservation at Missouri State University.
  • Suswaram plans to study computer science at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

You can view photos and their video submissions for STEM Signing Day below.

A Rockwood student smiles at a STEM Signing Day event.
A Rockwood student smiles at a STEM Signing Day event.

A Rockwood student smiles at a STEM Signing Day event.

A Rockwood student smiles at a STEM Signing Day event.

 

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