Project Report
| Jun 8, 2015
2015 The Tech Challenge presented by Cisco
By Miki Masuda | Development Coordinator
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In April, we saw more than 2,000 students from every corner of our community exhibit teamwork, ingenuity, and resilience in front of crowds of cheering friends and families at the 28th Annual The Tech Challenge, presented by Cisco.
Each year The Tech Challenge invites youths from across Northern California to engage in a hands-on team engineering design challenge to solve a real-world problem. This year's challenge pushed students to use extraordinary ingenuity and innovation when they were asked to design a six-foot building, weighing 7 pounds or less, that could withstand an earthquake.
A future in which these kids use their skills to solve the world’s great challenges is a bright one indeed!
By the way, next year's challenge will involve flight! Some clubs and schools are already teaching flight concepts in preparation for the 29th Annual The Tech Challenge.
We thank you so much for your support and allowing us to create an environment where we can inspire the innovator in everyone.
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Mar 6, 2015
The Tech Challenge 2015 - First Test Trials, Fun!
By Miki Masuda | Development Coordinator
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The Tech Challenge Test Trial
The Tech Challenge 2015 - "Seismic Engineering in Action"
In April we will hold our annual student team event called, The Tech Challenge. For this year’s event, “Seismic Engineering in Action,” thousands of young people will learn creativity, teamwork, patience, leadership, risk-taking, problem solving, perseverance, and presentation skills through the process of designing a structure together that will withstand an earthquake – particularly important in our region of course. Feel free to join us on April 25th and 26th to witness the culmination of months of work by these young innovators at our 28th Tech Challenge event days.
The first Test Trials were last Saturday, February 28th. We had 40 teams attend, up from 9 last year. We hope to have 30-40 teams this Saturday, March 7th as well.
Teams registered: 510
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Dec 16, 2014
THE TECH CHALLENGE 2015 - SEISMIC ENGINEERING!
By Cathy Jensen | Development Associate
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Decima Allen School #1
The Tech Museum of Innovation is excited to announce that, as of mid-December, we already have 227 teams registered for the 2014-15 Tech Challenge! This design-challenge program, for grades 4-12, introduces and reinforces the science and engineering design process with a hands-on project geared to solving a real-world problem. This year’s challenge is “Seismic Engineering in Action!” Our teams of young innovators will spend the next several months designing (and often re-designing, but that is part of the learning process) structures meant to withstand an earthquake.
And, for the first time, we are partnering with ARM to include the “ARM Video Contest” for our Tech Challenge participants and we cannot wait to see what gets submitted. We are telling teams the following:
- Every year we receive short videos from teams about their Tech Challenge journey, detailing their process and showing off the cool devices they've built. You guys have inspired us to create the first-ever Tech Challenge Video Contest, sponsored by ARM. Submit a video to share your Tech Challenge experience. Videos may consist of sharing an awesome moment, a cool design, your brainstorming process, an epic fail, or your adventure as a whole. The top 3 videos will receive an award and be played during the Final Event!
Finally, during our outreach to encourage participation in The Tech Challenge, we took the attached two pictures showing what 5th graders at Decima Allen School in San Bruno built in about 15 minutes. Both structures stood up to a simulated earthquake. Great job!
The Tech Challenge is open to students in grades 4-12.
- 3 grade levels: Elementary: 4-6; Middle School: 7-8; High School: 9-12.
- Participants collaborate in teams of 2 to 6 people.
- Registration fees are only $50 for the entire team.
- Fees waived for Title I schools/after-school programs.
- Solutions can be created with common, low-cost materials.
- There are no pre-qualifying conditions to enter.
- Special needs students are encouraged.
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