Technology Student Association
The Technology Student Association (TSA) is a national non-profit student organization that helps students learn about technology through exciting competitive events. TSA members not only have an opportunity to learn technological literacy in the classroom, but they have the chance to extend that learning by preparing projects for regional, state, and national competitions. Teamwork and leadership are learned as students work together on their projects. Some of the competitive events are structural design, dragster design, video challenge, flight challenge, graphic design, and many more. Students are also encouraged to participate in community service projects.A complete list of events and information about the organization can be seen at the Tennessee TSA website - http://www.tntsa.org.
Cleveland Middle School's TSA chapter meets after school. Each member is required to pay local, state and national dues of $15.00. The club sponsors are Darlene and Franklin Odom, technology teachers at CMS.
The TSA chapter at Cleveland Middle School sent seven delegates to the Technology Student Association Tennessee Regional Conference on January 25, 2008. This conference,
held in East Ridge, brought together middle and high school students from the Chattanooga area to develop
leadership skills and to compete in a variety of leadership and technology events. Cody Couture, Emma Curtis, Loki Hondorf,
Alex Klibisz, Westin Laing, Sean McCord, and Eric Rutledge represented CMS this year. These students competed
individually or as small groups in nine events and placed in the following:
Alex Klibisz - 1st place in Graphic Design
Westin Laing - 1st place in Prepared Speech
Sean McCord - 1st place in Dragster Design
Cody Couture - 1st place in Technical Design
The team of Alex Klibisz, Westin Laing, and Ricky Stephens - 1st place in Video Challenge
The team of Alex Klibisz and Westin Laing - 1st place in Leadership Challenge
Eric Rutledge - 2nd place in Dragster Design
Loki Hondorf - 2nd place in Technical Design
The team of Eric Rutledge and Emma Curtis - 2nd place in Structural Design
Congratulations!! Each student who participated won at least one award!
2007-2008 TSA Officers
President - Westin Laing
Vice-President - Mitchell Schroll
Secretary - Jessica McKinney
Treasurer - Alex Klibisz
Reporter - Becky Han
Historian - Katie White
Parliamentarian - Atif Niaz
Sargeant-at-Arms - Azka Niaz
