Tech Interactive Challenge Overview

• The Tech Challenge is a 35-year-old signature program of The Tech that invites teams of students in Grades 4-12 to use the engineering design process to solve a real-world problem. Participants spend months collaborating and becoming deeply engaged in the challenge while documenting their progress and designs. The program culminates in an inspiring two-day showcase in April where teams put their solutions to the test in front of judges.

Cosmic Quest - 2023-2024 Challenge

SPACE – the possibilities are limitless!

From figuring out how to redirect asteroids to finding planets that could support life, scientists are always collecting information about our universe. Scientists are on a quest to learn more about a distant planet and its largest moon. Can your team deliver fragile, but highly important supplies to this moon’s surface?

The challenge: Deliver multiple payloads to different locations.

2023-2024 Cosmic Quest Challenge Calendar:

• • This year’s showcase will be in-person! Final Showcase will take place April 29, and April 30, 2024 at South Hall, 435 S. Market Street in Downtown San Jose. 

  • High School Show Case is on SUNDAY, APRIL 30 - Grades 9-12:Morning

Rules & Instructions:

• The Tech Challenge, presented by Amazon!

• New Information and Check List

• Cosmic Quest - Rules & Rig

  • Rules

  • Rig

Resources

• The Tech Challenge, presented by Amazon!

Tech Challenge Teams - Cosmic Quest

Your Tech Challenge team number(s):

210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219

AM

• Team 210 Engineering Notebook - Angel Armendariz, Dusan Gutierrez, Phillip Le, Minh Doan, Tony Morales, David Contreras, Victor Li, 

• Team 211 Engineering Notebook - Scott Anderson, Anthony Lenz, Gene, Jeremy

• Team 3 Engineering Notebook - David Contreras, Victor Li, Anh Thai, Angie Vu

• Team 213 Engineering Notebook - Christian Bartra, Malik Martinez, Angelica Bracamontes, Prexie Guieb

• Team 5 Engineering Notebook - Antonio Ebner, Daveed Hernandez, Tyler Weidner, Aidan Yannone

• Team 212Engineering Notebook - Daniel Paiz, Yash Sanghvi, Dhruv Ubhayaker, Anirudh Srikrishnan

PM

• Team 217 Engineering Notebook - Duncan Adamson, Carter Alwine, Connor Nguyen, Charely Poff

• Team 214 Engineering Notebook - Lijia Becerra, Lexi Hunt, Cysco Martinez, Tran Nguyen, Jesus Aguirre

• Team 9 Engineering Notebook - Dean Bui, Jaden Tran, Freddy Gonzalez, Dominic Jordan

• Team 215 Engineering Notebook - Nicolas Colton, Ben Pham, Josh Ullua , Kevin Wong

• Team 218 Engineering Notebook - Jose Cruz Mendez, Sebastian Mena, Irvin Olmos, Bukhari Farah, Alexander Duran

• Team 12 Engineering Notebook - Azaria Garcia, Tae Thomas, Jonah Nolasco, Alex Ortiz-Ayar

• Team 216 Engineering Notebook - Rafael Guillen, Damián Rentería, Sean Phi 

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Past Years Tech Challenge Team. Docs, Data

• 2023 - Tech Interactive Challenge - Surviving the Storm

• The scenario: Severe weather ahead! Storms are getting worse bringing strong winds that create danger and destruction. Can you use your engineering skills to defend against high wind conditions?

• The Challenge: Build a structure to protect vulnerable objects from extreme winds.

• The Tech wants to acknowledge the significant destruction and suffering being caused by the 2022 hurricane season. The Tech Challenge was created to introduce students to engineering—especially its invaluable role in solving real-world problems. This summer we designed a new challenge for 2023 that explores how we can use engineering to provide protection against high winds. We hope that youth can learn empowering lessons during this year’s program about how the engineering skills they develop can improve the outcomes of future extreme weather events.

Survive The Storm Engineering Notebooks

• Project and Advisor Engineering Notebook - Mr. Burnham

• Tech Interactive - Survive The Storm

  • Storm Team 1 -189 -  Loc Pham, Tyler Huynh, Brian Nguyen, Landon Phan, Nguyen Vu, Nam Nguyen

  • Storm Team 2 - 190 - Kenneth Gentry, Da'Quan Butts, Hayden Melius, Joshua Valenzuela

  • Storm Team 3 - 191 - Milana Rubin, Arlette Lopez, Ash Sanjeev

  • Storm Team 6 - Andy Hang, Thaison Nguyen, Quincy Thompson, Aiden Valadez, Nguyen Vu

  • Storm Team 4 -  192 - Alexander Garcia, Duy Bui, Ember Tardos, Mia Trinh

  • Storm Team 5 - 193 - Luis A Garcia, Yusif Bahlool, Elizabeth Borrayo, Dale Cherne

  • Storm Team 7 - Noah Jung, Daniel Perez, Yen Tran Hoang