Competition Date: Feb. 18, 2015
FINAL RESULTS
Time: 9:00 am to 4:30 pm CST.
Where: Scherr Howe Arena
Presented by: Mobridge-Pollock School Science Dept.
Martin Looyenga: martin.looyenga@k12.sd.us
Pam Wells: pam.wells@k12.sd.us
School ph #: 605-845-9200
Sponsored by: Main St. Bank, Fairfax, VA (Jeff W. Dick), Oahe Area Retired Teachers, Mobridge Chamber of Commerce & MPHS Science Club
Assisted by: Oahe Area Retired Teachers, SD Dept. of Game, Fish & Parks, Volunteers from Mobridge community, Mobridge-Pollock HS National Honor Society
This is a competition for creative, science based learners. This is a time to explore science in ways that are not always easy to accomplish in the classroom. Students can create, build, and showcase their work. They can also work as teams to solve problems. The competitions will consist of "make and takes" where the student teams will build a device and bring it to the competition. There will also be on-site activities where students will be asked to solve engineering or science based problems.
I - We'd like to invite your school's students, primarily physics students, but
any high school student can compete.
1 - Do As I Write (PDF File)
2 - Cannons (PDF File)
3 - Thinking on Your Feet (PDF File) (topic - SD Upland Game Management)
4 - Tower (PDF File)
5 - Mousetrap Drag Race (PDF File)
6 - Rube Goldberg Machine (PDF File)
Rube Goldberg Scoring (PDF File)
7 - Up, Up & Away (PFD File)
8 - Ablative Armor (PDF File)
9 - Fire Away (PDF File)
10 - Skills (PDF File)
Time Schedule: click here for 2015 Smarts Challenge Schedule
Coaches - Be aware of the time schedule as you set up teams for each event.
Students are not to be registered for 2 events competing at the same time.
** SHOWCASE**
Does your school have something to show off? Something that you are proud of? Here is
your chance to demo it to all the schools attending and the public.
Awards presentation to follow last competition and Showcase.
VI - Prizes:
VII - Entry fee: $125 per team per school payable to Mobridge Pollock School Dist.
VIII - Each participant and coach will receive a "SMARTS" Challenge t-shirt
Registration Form: Complete and attach check - payable to Mobridge Pollock Public Dist.. Due Jan. 16, 2015
Comments/Questions are much appreciated. Please post them below.
FINAL RESULTS
Time: 9:00 am to 4:30 pm CST.
Where: Scherr Howe Arena
Presented by: Mobridge-Pollock School Science Dept.
Martin Looyenga: martin.looyenga@k12.sd.us
Pam Wells: pam.wells@k12.sd.us
School ph #: 605-845-9200
Sponsored by: Main St. Bank, Fairfax, VA (Jeff W. Dick), Oahe Area Retired Teachers, Mobridge Chamber of Commerce & MPHS Science Club
Assisted by: Oahe Area Retired Teachers, SD Dept. of Game, Fish & Parks, Volunteers from Mobridge community, Mobridge-Pollock HS National Honor Society
This is a competition for creative, science based learners. This is a time to explore science in ways that are not always easy to accomplish in the classroom. Students can create, build, and showcase their work. They can also work as teams to solve problems. The competitions will consist of "make and takes" where the student teams will build a device and bring it to the competition. There will also be on-site activities where students will be asked to solve engineering or science based problems.
I - We'd like to invite your school's students, primarily physics students, but
any high school student can compete.
II - Each school may bring up to 6 teams consisting of up to 12 students per team.
Registration Form: for each team competing - complete and attach check -
due Jan. 16, 2015.
Coaches: Please be aware of the time schedule as your students sign-up for
events. Every time slot has at least two events coinciding.
due Jan. 16, 2015.
Coaches: Please be aware of the time schedule as your students sign-up for
events. Every time slot has at least two events coinciding.
III - There will be 10 events: Each event will consist of 1 to 4 participants.
Descriptions and rules are attached as PDF Files.
Descriptions and rules are attached as PDF Files.
1 - Do As I Write (PDF File)
2 - Cannons (PDF File)
3 - Thinking on Your Feet (PDF File) (topic - SD Upland Game Management)
4 - Tower (PDF File)
5 - Mousetrap Drag Race (PDF File)
6 - Rube Goldberg Machine (PDF File)
Rube Goldberg Scoring (PDF File)
7 - Up, Up & Away (PFD File)
8 - Ablative Armor (PDF File)
9 - Fire Away (PDF File)
10 - Skills (PDF File)
Time Schedule: click here for 2015 Smarts Challenge Schedule
Coaches - Be aware of the time schedule as you set up teams for each event.
Students are not to be registered for 2 events competing at the same time.
** SHOWCASE**
Does your school have something to show off? Something that you are proud of? Here is
your chance to demo it to all the schools attending and the public.
Awards presentation to follow last competition and Showcase.
V - Judges and event directors will be coaches from participating schools, assisted
by volunteers from the Mobridge community.
by volunteers from the Mobridge community.
VI - Prizes:
1st place in each event will receive $40 in Mobridge Bucks
2nd place in each event will receive $20 in Mobridge Bucks
Winners of "Thinking on Your Feet" will be awarded an additional $100 from ?.
Overall Winning Team - each team member will receive a TI-83 Plus calculator
Team Trophies will be given to the top three scoring schools.
2nd place in each event will receive $20 in Mobridge Bucks
Winners of "Thinking on Your Feet" will be awarded an additional $100 from ?.
Overall Winning Team - each team member will receive a TI-83 Plus calculator
Team Trophies will be given to the top three scoring schools.
VII - Entry fee: $125 per team per school payable to Mobridge Pollock School Dist.
VIII - Each participant and coach will receive a "SMARTS" Challenge t-shirt
Registration Form: Complete and attach check - payable to Mobridge Pollock Public Dist.. Due Jan. 16, 2015
Comments/Questions are much appreciated. Please post them below.
Coaches - Make sure you do not have students in events competing at the same time.
ReplyDeleteCorrection - Do not have a student participating in coinciding events. No student should be competing in events that happen at the same time. Please, as a school, participate in every event.
DeleteI don't see the files for some of the contests and the Mousetrap car contest doesn't let me open it. Am I doing something wrong? Or are they not up yet? Thanks! Meg Vander Laan
ReplyDeleteThe Rube Goldberg, fire away, and skills pdf files don't download still. Are they still coming or is it on my end? Thanks again. Meg
ReplyDeleteWork in progress. Rube Goldberg is up. Other two will be coming soon. Sorry for the delay.
ReplyDeleteWe've made a change that may assist teams with fewer team members. We are changing events to 1 to 4 team members. Prior it was 2 to 4. This may allow smaller teams to participate in more events.
ReplyDeleteQuestion has been asked about using air pressure in the "Cannon". Hope this works for everyone. We are going to allow the use manual bicycle pumps. There must be a pressure gauge and pressure cannot exceed 20 psi. The pressure must be built up prior to "hands off".
ReplyDeleteThe use of CO2 cartidges is not allowed.
Questions...put 'em here.
The mousetrap car states that the car must finish the race within the track. Cars leaving the 10 x 20 track, or not traveling the 20 ft., will not advance. Does this mean that the car must stop right at the 20 ft mark? Does it have to stop in a certain distance? I assume it is timed from start to the 20 ft mark, but must it stop at 20 or pass the 20 ft mark? I guess what I'm trying to say is there is a contradiction between "it cannot leave the track" and "not traveling 20 ft". Thanks! Meg
ReplyDeleteMeg.
ReplyDeleteI didn't state this the best. All apologies. What I meant was the car must stay within the side boundaries of the track. The end of the 20 ft will be the finish line and cars need to cross that. They do not need to stop at the 20 ft mark.
For the Cannon event: Can we bring our own foam golf balls? We're considering different designs for specific golf ball densities. We have some that have divets in them.....can we use these?
ReplyDeleteI have some. I've been meaning to send them out. I'll drop them in the mail tomorrow. They are yellow foam with dimples. I'll send 3 for each team.
ReplyDeleteIn the Cannon event do the cannons have to sit on the ground? Can students place them on a chair or table rather than the floor?
ReplyDeleteWe were planning on just having a launching spot on the floor. We'll probably flip a piece of carpet upside down so it can slide to be turned. If a chair, or table, is needed for the launch, then the cannon would be outside the dimensions.
ReplyDeleteScoring for the Rube Goldberg machine.
ReplyDeleteThe scoring rubric does not include "logbook" - oversite on our part.
However, each team that includes a logbook with their machine will receive a 10 pt. bonus.
For the Rube Goldberg machine, we have a question about the different kinds of energy. So having two different kinds of energy does not mean things like elastic potential, gravitational potential and kinetic energy. It means that you have to have some electrical energy or magnetic energy to count as another "type" of energy.
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ReplyDeleteMain Street Bank in Fairfax VA has given the Smarts Challenge competition $2000 to use as prizes for this and next year. We are going to continue awarding TI calculators to the winning team. They are refurbished. Here is the question. We can get either 1) TI-84 Plus that look very good, hardly any wear or 2) TI-84 Plus Silver Edition that show a little wear. The silver editions are faster and have more memory. Which would everyone prefer? I will be making the order next monday.
Either one sounds good to me. Ask you students what they prefer? Would they like a more used calculator with more memory or a newer one with less memory.
DeleteWe went with the Silver Edition. Function over form. :)
DeleteThere has been a question concerning the energy transfer point value determination. Each type of energy used in the Rube Goldberg Machine will be given points...once. If the machine uses various form of potential energy (elastic, gravitational, chemical), each will be counted. For example, if a machine just used gravitational potential energy, it will be only valued once, even though there are multiple steps. I hope this addresses the question!
ReplyDeleteThat is still not clear to me. 1st class levers, pulleys, ramps etc all rely on gravitation potential energy. Does this mean that if one has two pulley systems, it can only be counted once and if one has levers and ramps that rely on gravity, they cannot be counted? Or, is each simple machine or energy exchange given points?
ReplyDeleteThe point of the different energy sources is to ask students to find ways to incorporate and use multiple energy transfers. Once an energy source is identified within the machine it is given a value. The idea of using ramps and pulleys will be gravitational potential energy transferred to kinetic energy is already classified as an energy transfer. However, they are also included as a step. Let's say a team uses only GPE in their machine and has 20 steps, that team will be recognized for one type of energy transfer and meeting requirement of 20 steps. The next team incorporates GPE, elastic potential energy, and magnetic energy into the machine, as well as, the 20 required steps, that team will be scored for using 3 types of energy transfer and meeting requirements. Hope this helps. : )
DeleteThat is much more clear. Thank you.
DeleteDoes the Rube Goldberg Machine have to turn only one page or can it turn multiple pages?
ReplyDeleteone page
ReplyDeleteWe had the same discussion, but it say's one page.
My students have a question about the Canon: If you knock over the cups at the 10 ft., will they be reset so you can knock them again or do you have to go to another distance?
ReplyDeletethey will be reset.
Deletehowever, all 4 shots cannot be at the same target
This is about the page turning. Can something be done to the page before one starts the machine? For example, can one have something under the page that will be pulled by the machine?
ReplyDeleteThe magazine may be altered to accommodate your machine....bending the page, taping something to it, etc.
ReplyDeleteMy students would like to know if the magazine has to be with in the 80 cm cubed are of the Rube Goldberg machine. Thank you1
ReplyDeleteSorry Angela for not responding sooner. The magazine needs to be within the paramaters of the box.
DeleteWe are having trouble with the Styrofoam cups...they can become so full of static electricity that they don't want to stack. You might want to consider plastic cups instead. They do not hold the charge like Styrofoam.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the heads-up Molly,
DeleteWe'll bring both kinds of cups.
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ReplyDeleteCan the five second delay for the cannon be a battery operated device? Is that considered chemical or electrical?
ReplyDeleteThe time delay must be a mechanical time delay. So a battery operated device is out.
DeleteIn the cannon event, do the cups need to be knocked over by a direct hit or do bounces count too?
ReplyDeleteshots bounced into targets do not count
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