Welcome to the Chicopee High School JETS Club

	The science club here at Chicopee High School offers students hands on experience with science outside the classroom. Members will design and create projects, robots for example, using what they have learned in class, in research, and from what the supervising teacher(s) have advised them. The projects are entered into science competitions. J.E.T.S., or the Junior Engineering Technical Society, is our second science based club. The club is aimed at juniors and seniors as trig, calculus, chemistry, and physics are essential to a good performance. The J.E.T.S. competition takes place at UMASS-Amherst on a Saturday in March each year. Each student will be placed on a team of eight...either Varsity or Junior Varsity depending on their grade level and science skills. The competition takes place over three hours will a lunch break in between at one of the schools dining halls. During the first hour and a half, each team is given ten problems to work on together. These ten questions are graded either right or wrong and will determine the winning team at the competition itself. During the second hour and a half, essays related to some of the first ten problems are assigned. The team needs to decide on the best possible solution the the question and describe it in full detail using scientific answers. Since this is the design portion of the testing, winners are not determined by right or wrong answers but by the best answers. In each district, the first and second place winners of this series of questions will be invited to attend the National J.E.T.S competition in Washington D.C. The winning teams in Washington receive scholarships starting at $20,000 per person. J.E.T.S. offers experience in engineering, in sharing knowledge in a group as one would do in the workforce, and looks good on college and job applications, especially if one plans on entering the engineering field.

The science club here at Chicopee High School offers students hands on experience with science outside the classroom. Members will design and create projects, robots for example, using what they have learned in class, in research, and from what the supervising teacher(s) have advised them. The projects are entered into science competitions.

J.E.T.S., or the Junior Engineering Technical Society, is our second science based club. The club is aimed at juniors and seniors as trig, calculus, chemistry, and physics are essential to a good performance.

The J.E.T.S. competition takes place at UMASS-Amherst on a Saturday in March each year. Each student will be placed on a team of eight...either Varsity or Junior Varsity depending on their grade level and science skills. The competition takes place over three hours will a lunch break in between at one of the schools dining halls. During the first hour and a half, each team is given ten problems to work on together. These ten questions are graded either right or wrong and will determine the winning team at the competition itself.

During the second hour and a half, essays related to some of the first ten problems are assigned. The team needs to decide on the best possible solution the the question and describe it in full detail using scientific answers. Since this is the design portion of the testing, winners are not determined by right or wrong answers but by the best answers. In each district, the first and second place winners of this series of questions will be invited to attend the National J.E.T.S competition in Washington D.C. The winning teams in Washington receive scholarships starting at $20,000 per person.

J.E.T.S. offers experience in engineering, in sharing knowledge in a group as one would do in the workforce, and looks good on college and job applications, especially if one plans on entering the engineering field.