TSA is getting techie with it. This club is for those who want to make their ideas come alive. Students create projects from different fields of technology like animatronics, biotechnology, fashion and more. Students can work alone or in groups.

Some projects require more preparation and can take almost the whole school year to complete. Others require no preparation so students would do their project on site at the competition, like music production.

“I have music production, which is where you have to compose a song and record it,” freshman Fiona Burroughs said. “My partner and I are both in orchestra so an orchestral piece is the easiest for us to write. But other projects don’t take the same work. My technology writing is an on-site project. I go to the competition and go to a room where I’m provided sources and a topic. Once I have them, I write a paper there.”

Most of the work done for the projects is done outside on the student’s own time. Some also work on their project during club meetings every Friday during Liberty Hour in room 30.

After all the preparation for their projects comes the competition where the students showcase their projects. Competitions are different for each field of technology but each one showcases the talent of the student.

“For biotechnology everything is prepared beforehand and you make a display for the judges,” senior Amy Burnham said. “If you make it to semifinals then that consists of an interview given with a presentation.”

Competitions can be very competitive with so many other students showcasing their projects and all reaching for the same goal: to go to nationals. TSA has been very successful in past years with 21 out of 28 students qualifying for nationals.

“We do a lot of fundraising because this year we are going to Florida for nationals, which costs a lot of money,” TSA sponsor Dathan Boden said.

One recent fundraiser TSA had was the MOD Pizza night where students came in and showed they were there to support TSA and eat.

“We have done cookie sales, coupon book sales and elementary age camps,” Boden said. “We had one during winter break, where elementary students come in for a day and we do activities with them and we also do one in the spring.”

One thing that is overlooked about technology is how it is changing the world as we know it. Technology will never stop growing and has left it’s footprint already.

“I’m so fascinated with technology and always am impressed with what the students come up with, so I am learning along with them.” TSA co-sponsor Eniola Ajayi said. “Technology is our future, it is the future of what we are doing, technology is in everything.”