Exrteme Engineering

So if you read my previous post, hopefully you know what HSLC is and that it was this weekend. Well as mentioned on my previous post Extreme Engineering is our main event of the conference. It was a complete success and I think that high school students as well as us enjoyed it very much. The task this year was to create a boat that would be able to carry at least 1500 bbs and to be able to transport this "treasure" for a given distance. The teams well also tested on velocity, presentation, price, and innovation.
So this challenge started on Friday where we (the extreme engineers leaders) picked our teams after interviewing each student for a 1 min period. That night they picked their positions in the teams (President, VP, CEO, or whatever position they came up with) as well as their team's name, boat's name and their first sketch of this boat. On Saturday night they started building taking in consideration the dimensions requirements and the budget limitations. Every material had a price and the cheapest your boat was the most points you would get in that category. They only had a couple of hours to build it and the results were amazing considering the age of these students.
At the end every team was awarded with first place each on different categories. The real winners were the leaders of each groups. Us (the extreme engineering leaders) got together with the judges and told them who was the high school student that showed the strongest leadership characteristics and we award these students with digital cameras.