DESCRIPTION OF THE CHALLENGES

 

Engineering Challenge: (Challenge 3 hours - Teams of up to 4) The Engineering Challenge will involve designing, building and testing a load bearing structure using uncooked spaghetti as structural members, connected to each other by hot glue and/or masking tape.

Math Challenge: (Challenge 1 hour - Individual Challenge) To prepare for this challenge, students can go to amatyc.org to use practice tests.

Biology: (Challenge 1 hour - Teams of 2) Students will design an organism of their own imagination equipped to live within a given challenge environment. The challenge environment, will be described on the day of the challenge by the judges, could be alien or it could similar to a habitat present on Earth.

 

DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITIES

Planetarium: (This activity is 1 hour and 15 minutes) Students will see a show and hear a presentation about the night sky.

                                                 Dawn of the Space Age

Re-live the excitement of the early days of space exploration, from the launch of the first artificial satellite sputnik, to the magnificent lunar landings and privately operated space flights. Be immersed and overwhelmed with this most accurate historic reconstruction of Man's first steps into space.

                                                          California Skies

A live program that will discuss the bright stars, constellations, planets, and deep sky objects visible in the sky tonight.

 

Computer Science: (This activity is 1 hour and 30 minutes) Step through the looking glass with Alice and her friends into lands of fairies, samurai, ice skaters and the lost world of ancient Greece and Egypt.  Discover how much fun it is to write computer programs by creating your own movies with robots, space aliens, and much more!  Explore the basic principles of object oriented programming by creating virtual worlds using the Alice programming language.