Engineering Activities, April 2010

This weekend, April 9-10, the 17th Annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race will be held in Huntsville, Alabama, at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center.

Student teams are divided in two divisions, high school and college, and compete in designing a “vehicle that addresses a series of engineering problems similar to problems faced by the original Moonbuggy team.”

Learn more about the responsibilities of each team and the course they must traverse

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This week the Vermont Air National Guard hosted the University of Vermont College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Engineers Day.

The event included five activities for local K-12 students to compete in with “the real goal of (promoting) the power of engineering thought.”

The activities were edible car races, wind turbine challenge, roof trusses, pasta bridges, and passive helicopters.
Read the article for more about UVM’s 2010 Engineers Day

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Tau Beta Pi would like to announce the 7th Annual ASEE Workshop for K-12 Engineering Education, taking place on June 19th in Louisville, Kentucky.

Advanced registration is now open and closes June 4th. Registration for “K-12 teachers who register by June 4th” is free.

Tau Beta Pi plans to attend the Workshop, which has been subtitled “Discovering Engineering in the Classroom,” to present a teacher training module developed as part of the MindSET Program.

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