At the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Student Leadership Summit (SLS) held in early February at the University of Florida, the GatorITE student chapter secured yet another win during the Florida-Puerto Rico (ITE FL-PR) District Traffic Bowl Competition.
“It has been a huge honor to carry the torch for GatorITE in the Traffic Bowl the last three years,” Bryce Grame said. Grame is a transportation engineering doctoral student.
The UF team, which included Grame, Jonathan Crosby, a master’s student in transportation engineering; Jacob York, a master’s student in urban and regional planning; and Garrett Walker, an undergraduate student in civil engineering, faced off against students from Florida International University (FIU), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (RAU), and the University of Central Florida (UCF). The competition was intense and tough, with each team hoping to win the district championship.
“The most pivotal moment for me personally was when I was able to knock out a 500-point unscramble question in which I was able to decipher ‘actuated signal’ from a jumble of letters,” said Crosby. “I would say a pivotal moment for our team and the competition as a whole was when FIU got their daily double incorrect which resulted in them losing 1000 points, to further cement our lead.”
With this victory, GatorITE has now won the ITE FL-PR District six years in a row and qualifies to compete for the Grand Championship, which will be held in July 2024 at the ITE International Annual Meeting and Exhibit in Philadelphia, Pa. The team hopes to replicate their success in 2013 when they won the Grand Championship.
“We have been blessed with continued success at the district level, and competing against all the brilliant students from all the other schools in the district has really prepared us for the Grand Championship,” Grame said. “We hope to represent the chapter well this summer in the International competition.”
Since 2009, ITE student chapters from Canada and the United States have participated in a competition known as the ITE Collegiate Traffic Bowl each year. This competition features teams of up to three students testing their knowledge of ITE, transportation planning, engineering topics, and some fun categories. The teams winning an ITE district competition advance to compete in the Collegiate Traffic Bowl Grand Championship, conducted annually at ITE’s International Annual Meeting and Exhibit.
Below are other images from Traffic Bowl 2024 held during the Student Leadership Summit at the University of Florida.
