More than 300 middle and high school students from 29 schools showcased their work and participated in competitions such as Junkyard Wars and robotics.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="650"] From left, VVS students Dawson Little, Noah Pfluke and Elizabeth Freeman build a Rube Goldberg machine during the 2015 MV Technology Ed & Pre-Engineering Showcase at SUNY Poly Thursday, March 12, 2015. The objective of the machine is for it to complete a series of chain reactions that will perform a service with no hands. Their goal for their machine is to pour a glass of water. Three hundred students in middle school and high school showcased their work and competed in competitions.[/caption]

Sonny Cirasudo admired a wooden chess set before him.

“I made these pieces with a 3-D printer,” the 10th-grade Whitesboro student said. “It was hard, but it was really fun to do.”

>He enjoys wood shop in school and took pleasure in designing the pieces, crafting the board, adding felt and painting them.

It took him four months, but he was able to display it at the 14th annual Mohawk Valley Technology Education and Pre-engineering Showcase Thursday at SUNY Polytechnic Institute.

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Posted Mar. 12, 2015 at 5:24 PM