Today is the last day to vote for Ridgewood Middle School, one of the 15 national finalists in the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow contest, a nationwide competition to increase student interest in science, technology, engineering and math
Ridgewood was second in the contest’s online voting as of this morning (March 31).
Since it is one of the national finalists, Ridgewood already has won $40,000 worth of Samsung technology. If the school is named one of five national winners, it would instead win $120,000 worth of technology.
Samsung and contest judges will select four national winners, and a fifth winner will be selected by the community online vote, which began March 1 and ends April 1. So, Ridgewood is asking local residents for their vote, which may be cast using Twitter and Instagram. To learn how to vote, go to www.samsung.com/solve.
Ridgewood became a national finalist after being named a state winner. It won the recognition for work students have completed in an elective class called STEAM, which stands for science, technology, engineering, art and math. As part of that class, which includes a community-service component, the students design and build devices to help district students with physical impairments.
To enter the competition, STEAM students and Ryan Wideman, the teacher who started the class, completed a lengthy application process, including a three-minute video detailing the project.
