East Mecklenburg High School's design of the Eagle Dome took top honors at the Ultimate High School Stadium Build presented by the Carolina Panthers and Duke Energy.
Indian Land High School's design of "The Reservation" took second place in the competition.
York Comprehensive High School's culinary class designed the third-place stadium.
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South Mecklenburg High School students designed the "Meckadome."
Students from York Comprehensive shake off pre-presentation jitters.
East Mecklenburg students explain the new technology featured in their Eagle Dome design.
South Mecklenburg presents the thought process and ideas behind the Meckadome.
Students from Indian Land High School take turns sharing their stadium build design.
Philip O. Berry students break down the environmental and sustainability aspects of their design.
York Comprehensive presents the technology details of their stadium design to the judges.
York Comprehensive demonstrates how its "Cougar Stadium App" allows fans to order and have concessions delivered to their seats.
Providence High School students address the judges.
Students discuss their presentations.
Greg Wolf, president of Duke Energy Renewables, challenges the students with questions about their design.
The judges get a kick out of a design presentation.
Dave Wagner, president of Wagner Murray Architects, tallies his scores at the end of the student presentations.
Students wait expectantly for the judges to decide the winners.
York Comprehensive High School's avant-garde Cougar Stadium roared to a third-place showing.
Indian Land High School's dynamic Warrior Stadium project earned runner-up honors.
And congratulations to the champions from East Mecklenburg High School!
East Mecklenburg students celebrate the win.
East Mecklenburg poses with the $2,500 grant they won for first place.
Indian Land received $1,500 for second place.
York Comprehensive received $1,000 for third place.
CHARLOTTE - The Carolina Panthers and Duke Energy teamed up to challenge select local high schools to use creativity, science, technology and engineering skills for the Ultimate High School Stadium Build competition.
Students were challenged with a simple premise. If your high school were to build its own NFL-style stadium, what would it look like? How would school spirit and traditions be incorporated into the design? What "next generation" ideas would the stadium have?
In addition to building scale models of their stadium, schools were asked to address a series of questions about their project and present their design concepts to a panel of industry experts during a timed presentation.
East Mecklenburg High School won the competition, while a pair of South Carolina high schools finished second and third - Indian Land and York Comprehensive.
