Lt. Governor Awards Marlborough Students With Engineering Honor

Calling themselves team "WingIt," a group of Marlborough High School students received a first-place prize Tuesday in a state-wide aircraft engineering contest. 

Winning the contest for three years in a row, the team will travel to Washington DC later in April to pit their design against more than 100 schools from across the country. 

"This is a real world experience most students our age don't get the chance to have," Ben Shepherd, a member of the team, said. 

In this year's contest, teams competed to design an unmanned aerial vehicle that could locate people in need of rescue with on-board cameras. 

"Having people who pursue engineering is good for Massachusetts," Lt. Governor Tim Murray said during the event. 

Murray presented the Marlborough team with a trophy in a private jet hangar in Hanscom Field in Bedford. 

The contest was organized by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. 

"This is an amazing group of kids, they're so smart," Ken Hanson, engineering teacher and adviser of the group, said. "The sky is the limit for these kids."