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23rd Annual Engineering Olympics Competition for High School Students

Students compete in Engineering Olympics
Michigan Tech's Center for Pre College Outreach held the 23rd annual Engineering Olympics Tuesday morning with over 90 students from six high schools competing in various engineering challenges. (Upper Michigan Source)

2014 Engineering Olympics
High school students from across the U.P. made their way through the snow to Michigan Tech for the 23rd Annual Engineering Olympics earlier today. ABC 10's Keweenaw Bureau Reporter Sam Ali was there to watch as some of the brightest minds in the region went to work. (Article and video from ABC 10 News)

2014 Engineering Olympics
After being cooped up inside classrooms during a long winter, students from six Upper Peninsula high schools converged at Michigan Technological University to test their designs during the 23rd annual Engineering Olympics Tuesday. (Daily Mining Gazette News article requires subscription to see)

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The Engineering Olympics has been an annual event for 23 years.It is put on by the Engineering Fundamentals Department www.ef.mtu.edu at Michigan Technological University.  It consists of a series of competitions in which high school students compete.

The purpose of the Engineering Olympics is to excite and inform high school students about the engineering profession and provide them with an opportunity to apply scientific and mathematical principles to the "real world".  This event gives students 'hand's on' challenges where they can apply knowledge gained through their high school courses. This event is held early May, and is an all day affair. Schools from the entire region (Upper Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota) have participated over the years.

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The Engineering Olympics, as an all day event, tends to follow a set plan.  Four main competitions are held in the morning.  These four competitions have certain criteria that must be met.  The schools are normally notified three months in advance about these competitions and are allowed the remainder of the time until the event to work on their projects. 

The students who participate are asked to work in teams of four.  Following the morning competitions a lunch is served.  After this, an on-site 'mystery' competition is held.  The On-Site Competition is kept a secret until the day of the event.  No school is given prior notice. 

The Engineering Fundamentals Department supplies all of the materials necessary, and the students are given around an hour that afternoon to do the best they can on whatever the competition happens to be. It consisted of the four competitions, Previous Engineering Olympics have included contests such as the Mackintooth Bridge, Bomb the Beanies, Robo Soccer, and Mickey on the Move, and the On-Site Competition: "Grape Juice". 


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Dillman Hall, 1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton,MI-49931-1295
Phone: 906-487-3057
Fax: 906-487-1620
Email: engfun@mtu.edu

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Modified on:May 25, 2014

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