Seven Lawrence High students are heading to Knoxville, Tenn., this week to compete in the National Construction Challenge Finals.

After winning first, second and third at the Kansas City region, the Lawrence High students will take on 46 other teams from around the country in the three-part competition. The national event will be Wednesday through Saturday.

Lawrence High seniors Skyler Criswell and Brice Tracy and juniors Ricky Bellinger, H. Kottwitz, Alex King, Kodi Masarik and Lucas Ingraham are the only team from Kansas. They are being sponsored by Case Construction Equipment.

The teams have to take part in three challenges: two that require designing and manufacturing of construction or industrial equipment and a third that gets the team to design a public relations campaign on informing people about infrastructure issues.

The challenge is sponsored by the Association of Equipment Manufacturers in partnership with Destination ImagiNation.