Register to WATCH! Student observers are welcome! Students can come and observe projects, without actually competing. To do so, please come and watch! However, you must register. The Vermont Air National Guard needs a list of all individuals on site.

Edible Car Exhibition (for elementary and middle school students). Astronauts on Apollo 13 were challenged to work with materials at hand to create necessary parts for their return to earth. The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) challenges students to bring edible cars made from food. Create an engineering vehicle that can roll down a ramp, travel a certain distance, and be edible. The Edible Car Ramp will be 8 feet long and 2 feet wide (2 feet high at the top of the ramp). Please read the REQUIRED READING before you begin. register online!  Limited to 80 students
Wind Turbine Challenge  (for middle and high school students) Limited to 50 wind turbines, 2-4 students per team. Build a wind mill that can lift a 1 kg. weight. The wind turbine must fit into a paper packing box (10-ream shipping box 11"x 17.5" x 10") to be taken to the event. Your score will be the time in seconds that it takes to remove the wind turbine from the box, adjust it as needed, and use it to raise a 1 kg. weight 1 meter. The wind turbine will be placed on a table 1 meter above the floor. A standard box fan will be used to power the wind turbine. Any devices deemed unsafe by the judges will be disqualified. Please read the REQUIRED READING before you begin. register online!
Passive Helicopter Drop Exhibition (for elementary, middle, high school) -  Design and build a helicopter that will spin and fall as slowly as possible and bring it to drop. The device should deliver a payload of one US quarter. This represents the telemetry device. They will be dropped from a height of about 60 feet in an indoor location. Helicopters can be constructed from paper, glue, straws etc. and must spin 5 times with the quarter payload before hitting the ground. A high lift device will be used to lift the passive helicopters. All passive helicopters need to have a *loop of thread or fishing line 2 inches in diameter attached to the center top of their device. *This circle of thread should be capable of lifting the device. Sponsored by: The UVM College of Engineering & Mathematical Sciences Please read the REQUIRED READING before you begin. register online!  Limited to 50 helicopters (2-4 students per team)
Pasta Bridge Exhibition (for middle and high school students) -  Quick and easy travel is made possible by the infrastructure of roads, bridges, and dams. Civil engineers design and build some of our world's most magnificent structures. What allows you to walk across a bridge, how does it stay up? Build your own and find out! The Pasta Bridge Exhibition asks students to construct a 36-inch bridge entirely from pasta and hot glue. Bridges need a good load-to-weight ratio. Pasta Bridges are limited in mass to 2000 grams. We recommend students use West Point software to test your designs. Software is free and available on line at: http://bridgecontest.usma.edu/download.htm Sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Please read the REQUIRED READING before you begin. register online!  Limited to 60 bridges (2-4 students per team). Build and bring for testing.   Click here to see the rules.
Hangar Roof Truss - (middle/high school) This challenge is to design and build a model of a airplane hangar roof truss. The truss scale is 1cm. = 1m. out of wood. The span is 1 meter with a weight limit of 1000 grams set for the trusses. The wooden bearing plates should be at least 4 cm. wide. No part of the truss or bearing plates may be more than 6 cm. wide. Trusses will be evaluated for overall strength and efficiency. Trusses must support testing apparatus (weight of 2 Kg). Use computer simulation to design the truss, fabricate the design and then bring it to be tested! For ideas visit West Point Bridge web site. Please read the REQUIRED READING before you begin. register online!  Limited to 50 students

For more information on National Engineers Week visit:  http://www.eweek.org
For more information on UVM's Engineers Week activities, contact: Dawn Densmore <densmore@cems.uvm.edu >

NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEK, is dedicated to increase public awareness and appreciation for engineering in February each year. At UVM, E-week  is organized by the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Dean’s Office.

E-Week exhibitions focus on local elementary, middle, and high school students. Approximately 500 students participate each year. This event coincides with the "Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day" where IBM engineers allow students to job shadow.

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