Want an opportunity to make an existing device more useful? Tinkering with a device in order to make it more accessible or easier to use requires careful thought, planning, time, and skillful engineering. This category is for devices engineered and/or modified by students to serve a specific purpose or meet a specific goal. Device and parts do not have to be new. However, the device must be fully functional.
Some examples of resources students may use when working in this category include but are not limited to:
You may have up to 2 people on a team but teams and individuals will compete against each other within each grade grouping. Regardless of the length of the project, judging time is 15 minutes. Judges may only view a portion of the actual project.
Judges will use the Device Modification category rubric as a guideline for exemplary characteristics of projects in this category. Students should use the rubric as a guide for what judges are looking for.