Meteorologists from the Charleston-area news stations built and competed with their handmade trebuchets ahead of the 10th Storm The Citadel competition.

Local news personalities will build, and compete with, their own mini trebuchets to promote STEM education and the 10th anniversary of Storm The Citadel.

Storm The Citadel 2020, the 10th anniversary of the competition, will be held on Saturday, Feb. 8 from 8 a.m. – 2 p.m. across The Citadel campus.

The first in SC: Cybercorps SFS at The Citadel highly trained cybersecurity and intelligence leaders through new scholarship program.

A Citadel cadet, along with two professors, wrote an academic paper titled “Matrices in the Hosoya Triangle” which was published in The Fibonacci Quarterly.

One unique — and educational — way The Citadel STEM Center of Excellence celebrates the season is by hosting “Cookies, Cocoa and Coding.”

Weinstein, whose research into microplastics pollution was recently featured in National Geographic, is being flown to Paris at the request of the French Embassy to share his discoveries.

In recognition of his lifetime of service and contributions to the State of South Carolina, Richard Dwight Porcher Jr., Ph.D., was awarded The Order of the Palmetto.

Citadel professor John Weinstein, Ph.D., speaks about microplastics with Pattrn, an online media outlet connected to The Weather Channel.

The Citadel hosted more than 340 middle and high school students interested in computer science from 12 different schools across the state.