2015 Winners

Best Overall 1st Place
Tectonic Dudes
Team # 414
Hyde Middle School

Best Overall 2nd Place
Endless Potato
Team # 486

Best Overall 3rd Place
Kung Fu Penguin
Team # 549
Bullis Charter School

Outstanding Engineering Journal
Unbreakables 
Team #176
Mission Valley Elementary

Science Monkeys
Team # 74

Building Starz
Team # 70
Alexander Rose School

Outstanding Engineering Design Process
The TecTonic Plates
Team # 72
Castilleja

Tech-Tonics
Team #248
Oak Elementary School

The Techtonic Tortoises
Team #266
Cousins

Outstanding Device Performance
Shaken Not Stirred
Team # 571
Schafer Park Elementary School

Tier Fyre
Team #468
Madera Elementary School

Team Asian
Team # 608
William Sheppard Middle School 

Judges Inspiration Award
Presented by Greg Brown
Rambertechies
Team # 295
George Miner Elementary 

Video Contest: Best Early Video
Presented by ARM
Team Name: Tri-Seismologists
Team: #296 

Best Teamwork
Zalzala
Team # 548
Stratford School 

Best Team Safety
Niles Tectonix
Team # 437
Niles Elementary School 

Best Costume
KLS Construction Warriors
Team # 603
Khan Lab School 

Best Sportsmanship
Periodic Coffee Tables
Team # 179
St. Martin of Tours 

Most Creative
The Powerpurrfect Girlz!
Team # 94
Group of Friends 

Judges Choice 
Evil Gluers=
Team # 220
Lincoln Elementary School 

Judges Choice  
A and K Modern Inventions
Team # 310
Gardner Bullis Elementary 

Judges Choice 
The Flying Pigs
Team # 240
Charter School of Morgan Hill

Best Overall 1st Place
Power Builders 
Team # 243
Hopkins Junior High School, Gomes Elementary School, Livermore Valley Charter School 

Best Overall 2nd Place
SJV Impact
Team # 429
St. John Vianney School 

Best Overall 3rd Place
Cookie
Team # 436
Hyde (Warren E.) Middle School

Outstanding Engineering Journal
Technically Challenged
Team #276
Castilleja School

Quaker Oats
Team # 484
St. John Vianney

EarthQuacks
Team #214
St. John Vianney 

Outstanding Engineering Design Process

Rubble Rousers
Team # 27
Rancho and Russell Milpitas Middle Schools

Wind Lords
Team # 231
Warren E. Hyde Middle School

Shock Waves
Team #304
St. John Vianney 

Outstanding Device Performance
The Quakers
Team #479

Shockwave!
Team #246
Magnolia Science Academy

The Shockwaves
Team #465  

Judges Inspiration Award
Presented by Greg Brown
The Ring of Fire
Team #661
Homeschool 

Video Contest 1st Place
Presented by ARM
Team Name: EarthQuacks
Team #214
St. John Vianney 

Video Contest 2nd Place
Presented by ARM
Team Name: Rijnorponex
Team #224
Ocean Grove Charter School-Homeschool 

Best Teamwork
MMs
Team # 228
Discovery Charter School 

Best Team Safety
{Bad Pun about Earthquakes}
Team # 274
Synapse School 

Best Costume
TMNT Engineering Squad
Team # 103
Centerville Junior High School 

Best Sportsmanship
Bad News Bears
Team # 186
St. Martin of Tours 

Most Creative
Wild Makers
Team # 536
Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula

Judges Choice 
Chowmein Ninjas
Team # 127
Peterson Middle School 

Judges Choice 
The Traffic Cones
Team # 203
St. Joseph of Cupertino  

Judges Choice 
iSolve
Team # 359

Best Overall 1st Place
Half Moon Bae
Team # 478
Cupertino High  

Best Overall 2nd Place
Girls on Fire
Team # 21
Christa McAuliffe alums at Monta Vista, Lynbrook and Cupertino high schools

 Best Overall 3rd Place
Quake Busters
Team # 481
Lynbrook High School

Outstanding Engineering Journal
Capricakes
Team #626
Cupertino, Lynbrook high schools

Terraemotus Vici
Team #565
Carlmont High

Quake Busters
Team #481
Lynbrook High 

Outstanding Engineering Design Process
Seismic Xperts
Team #405
Cupertino High

Nihil & Co. 
Team #728
Monta Vista High

Zero K
Team #302
Cupertino High

Outstanding Device Performance
Riff's Raffs
Team #408
Cupertino High

Kh(Anh)
Team #663
Oak Grove High

H2Owned
Team #551
Cupertino High 

Judges Inspiration Award
Presented by Greg Brown
The Fault Liners
Team # 221
Saratoga High 

Best Teamwork
Stress
Team # 494
Cupertino High 

Best Team Safety
Mischief Managed
Team # 346
Cupertino High  

Best Costume
Duct Tape Towers
Team # 298
Boy Scouts of America 

Best Sportsmanship
Groundbreakers
Team # 435
Cupertino High 

Most Creative
Team Tactical Techtonic Tickles
Team # 321
Wilcox High  

Judges Choice 
The San Andreas Faultliners
Team # 623
Cupertino High  

Judges Choice 
Seismic Survivors
Team # 5
Milpitas High  

Judges Choice
The Quakers
Team # 547
Cupertino High 

Tech Challenge 2015 participants can download their Certificate of Completion here. ttc2015certificate.pdf