West Haven, Conn., May 5, 2007 - Connecticut Pre-Engineering Program (CPEP) students from all over Connecticut will come together at the University of New Haven (UNH) to meet and share projects that they have worked on all year. Students will form teams and participate in events such as the battery powered boat race, the maglev race, designing a mouse trap car racer, the egg package drop, bridge building, and designing and building a roller coaster. Teams will evaluated on their ability to solve the problem at hand and the winning team for each event will receive an award from the judges. Students may also participate individually in the t-shirt, button, essay and poster contests as well as all spontaneous events such as mancala, chess, the minority inventors quiz, candy guess, brain teasers, rubik cube, and the Sudoku challenge.
When: Saturday, May 12, 2007 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Where: Charger Gymnasium, UNH Campus.
Details:
Battery Powered Boat Race (Challenge - To design, build and race a battery-powered boat.)
Maglev (Challenge - To design, build and race a maglev vehicle, the future of U.S. and world high speed transportation.)
Mouse-Trap Racer Car (Challenge - To design, construct, and test a model mouse trap racer car, a vehicle powered by a wound up mousetrap's spring.)
Egg Package Drop (Challenge - To design and build the lightest egg package that will hold at least 1 chicken egg and prevent it from cracking and/or breaking when it lands on the designated target.)
Roller Coaster (Challenge - To design and build a roller-coaster that will carry a marble from the starting point to the ending point in as fast a time as possible, without breaking the egg at the end.)
Bridge Building: I and II (Challenge - To design and build a bridge while following specifications and constraints that will hold the greatest amount of weight.)
CPEP's mission is to help underrepresented students discover their potential through science, math and technology. CPEP is designed to identify underrepresented minority and women students who have the potential for college at the upper elementary through the middle/junior high and high schools levels to enter and graduate from quality institutions of higher education. Providing the support system necessary to motivate students to perform well in a pre-college program, CPEP furnishes students with a strong foundation in mathematics, sciences and English to pursue math, science or engineering based fields at the four-year university/college level.
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