Lemont Advances Three Students To IDEA State Finals

LEMONT, IL — Lemont High School’s Technology Student Association advanced three entries to the state’s top drafting contest, the school said. At the Illinois Design Educators Association Regional, which was contested virtually and scored by Joliet Junior College, seniors Karl Ramski and Genna Yavaraski advanced in individual categories, while seniors Caden Brennan, Matas Carmichael and Michael Doyle moved on in team competition.

The IDEA State Competition will be held virtually on April 16-17.

According to the school, Yavaraski placed first to continue Lemont’s strong tradition in the Architectural Board division in regional competition. In that category, students are challenged to design and/or draw specified views, details or sections using provided materials, specifications and drawings. A Lemont student has won the regional in Architectural Board eight straight years, dating back to 2014.

Brennan, Carmichael and Doyle teamed for a runner-up finish in Engineering Design, in which a student firm of two or three students complete a presentation and project solution to sell their firm’s design to a client, the school said. Carmichael is the school’s first three-time state qualifier; he previously qualified individually in Introductory CAD and Assembly Modeling in 2019 and 2020, respectively.

Ramski placed third in Assembly Modeling, in which competitors model and subsequently assemble a number of parts using parametric constraint-based modeling programs, the school said.

Under the tutelage of teacher Scott Duensing, Lemont has had at least one IDEA state qualifier in 13 of 14 years, the school said.