C+C Ep. 16

A team of three Lakeside Junior High School students are the state winners of the 2023-2024 Samsung Solve for Tomorrow competition.

The ninth-graders Education Accelerated by Service and Technology project is one of 50 student projects named state winners in the annual competition, according to a Samsung Solve for Tomorrow press release. Each state-winning school received a $12,000 prize package of Samsung products and classroom resources and the opportunity to work with a Samsung employee mentor.

The nationwide Solve for Tomorrow competition challenges U.S. public school students in grades 6-12 to showcase how science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education can positively impact communities, according to the Samsung website.

The Lakeside students’ See the Sound project was an ideal fit for the competition, said Jamie Stallings, the students’ EAST and computer science teacher. The EAST program provides students with opportunities to use science and technology to address concerns they’ve identified in their local community.

The Students’ See the Sound project is designed to provide the hearing impaired with alerts concerning extreme weather conditions. The project was inspired by a classmate’s experience during the March 30, 2022, tornado that impacted Springdale and surrounding Northwest Arkansas communities.