The High School Plastics Expo
The High School Plastics Expo initiated by a suggestion from high school students to promote plastics’ as a career.  Each year High Schools and Companies volunteer to participate in a competition to create a prototype of a plastic product for presentation at an Expo.  The partners have to use a process and the capability of the matched company to invent, produce, market and sell a product.  The school has to document each step of the process, stay within a budget, complete by the due date and present their product at the Expo.  Emphasis is on the learning experience and the knowledge gained.  The  school has to learn as much as possible about the company and its products with whom they are matched.  The schools are judged on the following criteria and prizes are presented to the winners:

• Documentation – Book and Story Board
• Design Efforts – Drawings
• Physics – Materials, Tools, Tests
• Market Plans
• Media Relations – video, commercial
• Chemistry – Conduct experiments on material
• Public Speaking – Presentation at Expo
• Creativity, uniqueness, product solution, functionality, craftsmanship and aesthetics

High Schools that have participated in the Expos include but are not limited to:

Companies that have participated in the Expos include but are not limited to:

Gentex Optics
Foster corporation
Colt’s Plastics
Putnam Precision Molding, inc.
Putnam Plastics, Inc.
Phillips Moldex Inc.  &  Westminster Tool, Inc. (partnering together)
FilmX Technology

Thank you to our Judges  2003-2007:

Prizes:

• Trophy for Best Overall
• Trophy for People’s Choice Award
   • Trophy is a Lexan plastic purge design with metal insert plate (clear or lightly colored)       made by Colt’s Plastics.
• Certificate of Achievement – High School
• Certificate of Appreciation – company
• Gift Certificate to one QVCC course of student’s choice
   • One certificate per school
   • Student chosen by school