LWIT team from Kirkland places well during national design-build-launch competition

Published 9:52 am Friday, June 27, 2014

Two engineering technology students at the Lake Washington Institute of Technology in Kirkland placed 22nd out of 59 international college engineering teams at CanSat, the American Astronautical Society (AAS) and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) student design-build-launch competition for space-related topics in Burkett, Texas.

Jasmine Davis and Ian Smith beat more than 30 four-year engineering school teams who received college credit for participation. Both LWIT students did the competition as a side project while taking a full load of classes and Davis is also a single mom.