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Weir-Warman and Engineers Australia
Design & Build Competition - 2009
Project “BATON”
2009 RULES:
THE CONTEXT:
The Gondwanan societal leadership is undergoing change as a new generation emerges. To mark the transition, a ceremony symbolising the passing of responsibility from the serving to the newly appointed council members is to be staged in Capital Square. This is expected to be a huge community event and the Gondwanan Office of Protocol (GOP) is keen to show some flair and fanfare within the proceedings.
THE CHALLENGE:
The GOP has devised a design and build competition and has advertised it widely across the galaxy to find a fitting finale to the celebration. Their concept and the competition specification call for two autonomous devices working together in series to pass a sculpture representing the planet’s prosperity around two edges of the Square. Symbolically, the sculpture will pass from the retiring leaders to the new both safely and quickly.
Fortunately, teams of engineering students from Earth are about to visit Gondwana as part of their work experience programmes and the GOP is keen to engage them in the competition. On previous visits such engineering students have rendered invaluable assistance with solutions to similar engineering problems, and the Gondwanans again are hoping to benefit from the innovative budding engineers.
OBJECTIVE
The objective is to design, build and prove a prototype device in a laboratory environment that serves to automate a baton exchange. Can you win the Gondwanan Office of Protocol’s competition? Can you achieve an unbeatable score?
Can you assist in Project BATON?
NATIONAL ORGANISER
Dr Warren Smith
Email: w.smith@adfa.edu.au
Phone: 02 6268 8262
Fax: 02 6268 8276
See: http://www.adfa.edu.au/acme/studentactivities/warman/index.html
Students participating are encourated to consider well the Judges tips:
- Warman - Judges Tips
- Warman - Judges Tips (Word Document)
RECENT COMPETIONS
Rules:
- Project "Escape" - 2003
- Project "PEP" -
2004
- Project "SCAD" - 2005
- Project "ABC" - 2006
- Project "REACT" - 2007
- Project "READY" - 2008
Results:
- 2003 Final Results
- 2005 Final Results
- 2006 Competition Results
- 2007 National Final Results
- 2008 National Final Results
For information on earlier competitions, please refer to the following web sites:
University of Southern Queensland - The Warman Student Design and Build Competition and Warman Trophy - http://www.usq.edu.au/warman_comp/
NCED (The National Committee on Engineering Design) - Weir Warman Design & Build Competition - http://www.ncedaust.org/competitions_awards