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Athlone Institute of TechnologyFriday 2 March 2012
@Friday 2 March 2012
AIT is running two exciting competitions on Friday 2 March for Engineers Week 2012 and we would like your school to participate.
Schools are invited to enter one or two teams of 4 students each from either transition year or fifth year.
The competitions are as follows:• BATS (beams, arches, trusses and suspensions)• Bugs, Birds and Projectiles:Further details of both competitions are contained inside this brochure
SCHEDULE9.30 Students arrive to the Engineering and
Informatics Building
9.40-10.30 Overview of the competition and project
guidance
10.30-11.00 Students given project assignments and
equipment
11.00-1.00 Completion of projects
1.00-1.30 Judging of projects
1.30-2.10 Lunch
2.10-2.40 Presentation of prizes
2.40 Depart AIT
HOW TO ENTERPlaces are strictly limited to ten teams per competition, so please register your team(s) asap.
ContactAnnette Buckley [email protected] 090 647 1883
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BATS The Basics of Bridge DesignIf you're going to build a bridge, you'll need some help from BATS – not the furry, winged mammals that so often live beneath bridges, but the key structural components of bridge construction: beams, arches, trusses and suspensions.
Various combinations of these four technologies allow for numerous bridge designs ranging from simple beam bridges, arch bridges, truss bridges and suspension bridges to more complex variations, such as the side-spar cable-stayed bridge. For all its 21st century complexity, the side-spar design is based on suspension principles first used some two centuries earlier.
What allows an arch bridge to span greater distances than a beam bridge, or a suspension bridge to stretch over a distance seven times that of an arch bridge? The answer lies in how each bridge type deals with the important forces of compression and tension. We thought you might like to hear a bit more about how these structures work... then we thought you might even have a go...bring a friend.... challenge a friend... to destruction!
BUGS, BIRDS AND PROJECTILES
One of the major challenges facing engineering education today is to make it interesting to an ever more demanding student population. With the proliferation of electronic entertainment devices, it is necessary to embrace new technologies in the teaching of basic skills such as mathematics, physics, software development, etc.
To this end, we present a collection of three challenges to students.
Each team member is to use the Xbox 360 Controller to navigate a Finch Robot around• A number of obstacles. Points are lost
for collisions with each obstacle.• A maze while being timed. Points are
won/lost on the times achieved.
EYE-HAND COORDINATION
• Use the Hexbug Nano and Lego supplied and measure how the Hexbug behaves.
• Use these results to determine how long it should take to navigate a small maze provided.
HEXBUG MANIA
Each team is to investigate the effect of angle on the range of the projectile fired from a Nerf gun.
Extra points will be awarded to those teams that can estimate
the velocity of the projectile.
PROJECTILES
The Challenge• Take 207 pieces of plastic• Choose your design, you’ve got 2 hours• Make it span 50 cm• Build it high .... let’s say 30 cm• Test to DESTRUCTION!
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BATS The Basics of Bridge DesignIf you're going to build a bridge, you'll need some help from BATS – not the furry, winged mammals that so often live beneath bridges, but the key structural components of bridge construction: beams, arches, trusses and suspensions.
Various combinations of these four technologies allow for numerous bridge designs ranging from simple beam bridges, arch bridges, truss bridges and suspension bridges to more complex variations, such as the side-spar cable-stayed bridge. For all its 21st century complexity, the side-spar design is based on suspension principles first used some two centuries earlier.
What allows an arch bridge to span greater distances than a beam bridge, or a suspension bridge to stretch over a distance seven times that of an arch bridge? The answer lies in how each bridge type deals with the important forces of compression and tension. We thought you might like to hear a bit more about how these structures work... then we thought you might even have a go...bring a friend.... challenge a friend... to destruction!
BUGS, BIRDS AND PROJECTILES
One of the major challenges facing engineering education today is to make it interesting to an ever more demanding student population. With the proliferation of electronic entertainment devices, it is necessary to embrace new technologies in the teaching of basic skills such as mathematics, physics, software development, etc.
To this end, we present a collection of three challenges to students.
Each team member is to use the Xbox 360 Controller to navigate a Finch Robot around• A number of obstacles. Points are lost
for collisions with each obstacle.• A maze while being timed. Points are
won/lost on the times achieved.
EYE-HAND COORDINATION
• Use the Hexbug Nano and Lego supplied and measure how the Hexbug behaves.
• Use these results to determine how long it should take to navigate a small maze provided.
HEXBUG MANIA
Each team is to investigate the effect of angle on the range of the projectile fired from a Nerf gun.
Extra points will be awarded to those teams that can estimate
the velocity of the projectile.
PROJECTILES
The Challenge• Take 207 pieces of plastic• Choose your design, you’ve got 2 hours• Make it span 50 cm• Build it high .... let’s say 30 cm• Test to DESTRUCTION!
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Athlone Institute of TechnologyFriday 2 March 2012
@Friday 2 March 2012
AIT is running two exciting competitions on Friday 2 March for Engineers Week 2012 and we would like your school to participate.
Schools are invited to enter one or two teams of 4 students each from either transition year or fifth year.
The competitions are as follows:• BATS (beams, arches, trusses and suspensions)• Bugs, Birds and Projectiles:Further details of both competitions are contained inside this brochure
SCHEDULE9.30 Students arrive to the Engineering and
Informatics Building
9.40-10.30 Overview of the competition and project
guidance
10.30-11.00 Students given project assignments and
equipment
11.00-1.00 Completion of projects
1.00-1.30 Judging of projects
1.30-2.10 Lunch
2.10-2.40 Presentation of prizes
2.40 Depart AIT
HOW TO ENTERPlaces are strictly limited to ten teams per competition, so please register your team(s) asap.
ContactAnnette Buckley [email protected] 090 647 1883
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