Challenge Design Competition
Have you come up with your own challenges or activities using your school's EPro8 Construction Equipment?
Now is your chance to share these ideas and WIN.
If we like your idea, and use it for either the EPro8 Internal Events or the EPro8 Inter-School Events, then you will win CASH for you and your school.
If we choose to use multiple entries for our events then each of those ideas will be a winner. In short: if we use your idea, you are a winner.
You can even win more than once.
This competition is open to teachers AND students.
How It Works
Prizes
You will construct a prototype of your challenge and write the first draft of the challenge cards. You will photograph and video the prototype for your submission.
The challenges should follow the same general format as what you have seen in previous challenges. The challenge needs to be able to be split into parts that start easy and get progressively more technical.
We are particularly looking for challenges that use the equipment in a unique and different way.
We like challenges that have elements of basic practical maths, engineering concepts or physics as part of them.
Don't worry if the challenge cards aren't perfect - our engineers will develop your idea to a publishing standard.
There are two categories: EPro8 Internal Events Challenges and EPro8 Inter-School Event Challenges
EPro8 Internal Events Challenges
The equipment in these challenges is restricted to:
- One set of EPro8 Construction Equipment
- Readily available consumables (cardboard, rubber bands etc)
- We could consider a simple extra part if required (like something laser cut from acrylic)
EPro8 Inter-School Event Challenges
These challenges can use any of the equipment you will have seen at our inter-school events. This includes the full set of electronics.
- We can add extra props to make the challenge look better
- We can add or develop extra equipment if required
Challenge Template
Download this template to complete your challenge design:
Each winning entry will WIN:
$300 Cash for Your School
$200 Cash for YOU
If you have multiple ideas that we choose to use, you will win this prize multiple times.
The Rules
Entry to this competition is restricted to schools and teams that we invite. We have chosen teams that have done well at our events and we know will enter good ideas.
Entries close Friday Nov 8 at 5:00pm.
Entries must be submitted on our website using the official form.
We will judge the entries and announce the winners on Monday Nov 18th.
All entries that we like enough to use for either the EPro8 Internal Events or the EPro8 Inter-School Events will be winners. There can be multiple winners.
The winning entries may be used in any future year.
The entries must be new ideas. They can't just be a copy of ideas we have already used or published.
A list of our previous challenge ideas can be seen here:
Make sure yours is something unique or different.
If two entries are very similair we will judge which entry is the closest to what we use at the events.
To claim the prize you must agree to transfer ownership of the idea to the EPro8 Challenge. This means that we can use the idea in the future without you having any claim over the idea.