Welcome to the Techology and Society Connection(TASC) Website!

The UVM College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Design Technology And Society Connection (TASC) is held annually at UVM. The purpose of the competition is to give teams of high school students the challenge and satisfaction of designing, building, and testing a device to perform a specified task. The program begins in September and culminates in December with schools bringing a maximum of three teams (five students per team) to UVM to display created devices. This competition is sponsored by businesses in Vermont and surrounding states.

Goal
The program is designed to help teachers encourage high school students to use their knowledge of physics and mathematics in a tangible way. The competition features many different aspects that appear in the high school curricula: including physical principles such as, work, energy, efficiency, pressure, friction, and inertia; mathematical principles such as functions, minima, maxima, and logarithms; oral and written communication skills; and drawing skills. Teams that carefully consider all of these aspects of the problem, that look at possible trade-offs in the design and that thoroughly test the apparatus, have the greatest success. Teamwork is a critical factor in determining success.