Kennett High senior Kate Keefe topped 125 students worldwide to win the VEX Make It Real Challenge. Keefe, 18, designed and made a nameplate holder for robots. She also is the recipient of a $40,000 Amazon Future Engineer scholarship. (JOE RIDDENSDALE PHOTO)
Kate Keefe got some good news in the mail earleir this spring when she named a 2020 Amazon Future Engineer $40,000 scholarship recipient. Only 100 high school students in the country were awarded this honor. (COURTESY PHOTO)
Kennett High senior Kate Keefe topped 125 students worldwide to win the VEX Make It Real Challenge. Keefe, 18, designed and made a nameplate holder for robots. She also is the recipient of a $40,000 Amazon Future Engineer scholarship. (JOE RIDDENSDALE PHOTO)
Kate Keefe got some good news in the mail earleir this spring when she named a 2020 Amazon Future Engineer $40,000 scholarship recipient. Only 100 high school students in the country were awarded this honor. (COURTESY PHOTO)
CONWAY — Although the Kennett High Coders were unable to attend the 2020 Vex World Robotics Championships in April in Louisville, Ky., due to the COVID-19 pandemic, one member of the team, senior Kate Keefe, 18, has been garnering worldwide attention.
Keefe not only won the VEX Make It Real CAD Challenge, engineering and 3-D printing a part for a VEX robot, she also is the recipient of a $40,000 Amazon Future Engineers Scholarship. Not only that, she reportedly posted the highest score ever documented on the Hunting Dearborn engineering test, earning another $20,000.
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