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The Tech Effects Challenge
Dip a French Fry into Ketchup. It’s a simple Task, but the Tech Effects solution is not. Accomplish this Task by designing and building a multi-step Chain Reaction Contraption. Create a series of interconnected devices that trigger one another in order to dip that french fry into ketchup. Solving this tasty Challenge will require technical inventiveness, teamwork, and the utilization of scientific principles ... and the creative process will provide your team with a healthy dose of FUN!
The Tech Effects Challenge is solved by a team of up to seven members, with the guidance of an adult Team Manager. Teams will have six to eight weeks to prepare and perfect their solution before presenting at an optional Tech Effects Rally along with other Tech Effects Teams.
Each year the Tech Effects Challenge will include a TechFocus that highlights a specific technological or scientific principle. A TechFocus Learning Kit is included in the program materials that will enable your team to investigate the fundamentals of the TechFocus and develop ideas on how to incorporate it into the solution. The Challenge will have additional parameters such as time limits, the physical size of the solution, the solution cost and others. The Kit 1 TechFocus is the Pulley System. Each Tech Effects Kit includes a Challenge, TechFocus Learning Kit (Three Tecxplorations, construction materials and portfolios), TechFacts, Team Manager Guide and Tech Effects Rally CD.
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Educational Benefits
Completing a Tech Effects Challenge requires research, development and design of a multi-step technical contraption. Participating in this program provides a unique opportunity to learn creative and critical thinking skills and tools, teamwork, as well as the application of technological and scientific principles. Tech Effects can help develop an environment where participants can have fun while building self-confidence and growing as individuals. Tech Effects not only helps participants develop academically, but also encourages self-motivation, risk-taking, time and money management, and excellence.
Tech Effects has been developed to address the educational content standards for technology and engineering as well as other areas of science. The Challenge includes rubrics that enable participants to meet specific objectives from technology content standards as they develop their solution
to the Challenge.
Tech Effects has been designed by the curriculum development experts at Destination ImagiNation, Inc., the world’s largest creative problem-solving organization. For over 20 years Destination ImagiNation, Inc. has been developing creative problem-solving tournaments for participants ranging from Pre-K to college level as well as programs for corporations and adults.
Click here to download the Tech Effects Brochure!
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