CAD Competition for Team Members

[Brad Hanel]

Originally Posted by Brandon_L

Similar to this, we've done a trebuchet contest. Designed on the computer and cut out of foam board from printed patterns. We set up a wall of wooden blocks in front of each trebuchet and they had to fire at each other from across the room. Whoever hit the other trebuchet first won. We did it with a double elimination tournament bracket, everyone loved it.

That seems like a great idea! The past year my team's CADders split into two groups, and had a group vs. group contest to build an arm from Logomotion. It was helpful in learning CAD but not super fun.

How did you organise the teams? Was it just each student worked individually, or more like groups of a couple students and a mentor all competing for the gold?