7th Design Challenge

Competition Leaders

Deadline for Entries will be Thursday, March 13th - Enter NAMES HERE

Co-chairs - Tyler Myers (WMS)
Assistant:
Career Coach: Brenna Edmonds (Virtual High)

Important Dates

First Round Registration by March 10, 2027 end of business- all open slots available for the taking on first-come, first-serve basis beginning March 11, 2027. Please complete form on home page and the CTE Department will update the Student Sign-Up spreadsheet.
🛑Deadline For Registration March 17, 2027

The Competition

Students should have practice with Engineering Design Process and adhering to criteria and constraints to solve problems. Students should be prepared to design at the Tech Fair. The specific challenge is not revealed until the night of the Tech Fair.

1 Team of 2 students from each school

This year’s challenge will be like last year’s challenge with a few modifications.

Overview (criteria):

Students will be presented with a novel task. The task will involve designing a device(s) to successfully extract a variety of objects from a special challenge container.
Students will use steps of the design process to plan, prepare, design, build and test their device.
Each object will be worth a specific amount of points based on the level of extraction difficulty.
Winner will be determined by the total number of points accumulated.

If you have not already selected your student representatives, consider the following traits when selecting-

Problem solving
Teamwork mentality
Perseverance
Comfortable working in front of an audience

Competition Scoring

Point values assigned to various objects. Those with the highest extraction points are the winners.

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