Tech Challenge Information
2017 Challenge: "Rock the Ravine" for Grades 4-6Test Date - April 29, Saturday grade 4-5 morning; grade 6 afternoon
Challenge: design and build device (max 10 lbs) to move from table to table (please see official rules on the official website)
Team size: minimum of 2 maximum of 6
How does it work? – students form teams, brainstorm, come up with ideas, build it, test it, modify, rebuild, test, repeat cycle until they feel they have met the challenge; all meetings take place outside of school; all meetings scheduled amongst team members and parents;
What if I have no engineering background? – Perfect, you as parents should not be doing this challenge because you are not competing. Your students are. Your job is to help facilitate the meetings, drive them to meetings, provide snack and encouragement when they fail at their first test run. On April 29, students will head in to the challenge to face the judges as a team without any parents present. So the team must be able to answer the judges’ questions.
Not sure? Come hang out with other potential participants in the STEAM room on Nov. 4 and Nov. 18 (both Fridays) between 12-12:40pm I will be there to answer questions and collect names to try to put parents in touch with each other if needed
More questions? Want to form a team?
Contact: Crystal via email: ncrystalj@yahoo.com
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