Engineering Olympics Ideas

[IKE]

Originally Posted by Bpk9p4

IKE thanks a lot for the idea and the video. This is perfect for FIRST. i did this with my team last night and it was a giant hit

Glad it worked out well. I also enjoy a lot of the projects that the PBS Design Squad show does:
http://pbskids.org/designsquad/build/

While the target audience is a bit younger than FRC, this build projects work well for shorter durations for older kids.

We used to do a lot of these, but the tasks often required too long for the students to complete and ate up too much time/mentor effort to do them properly. (We did bottle rockets, mousetrap cars, catapults, putting machines, rubber band powered cars, egg drop....)

Keeping them short, sweet, but informative is a real trick.

One I always wanted to do, but never have would be during the spring picnic, I wanted to do ICE-Cream towers. Start with 1 gallon of icecream. Tallest Tower at the end of a 20 minute period...