Students Take the STEM K’Nex Challenge

On February 23, 2017, three teams from York Suburban Middle School competed at the LIU #12 annual Stem Design Challenge Competition.  Team YS6 included Megan Shorb, Edward Lulo, Louis Tapp, and Olivia Sarsfield.  Team YS7 included Noah West, Addison Barley, Matthew Aulthouse, and Kirollos Mina.  Team YS8 included Alex Gleba, Devlin Ravegum, Michael Forster, and Jack Ports.  Students were coached by Mrs. Karen Campbell and Mr. Jared Moore.

This year’s challenge was to create a new amusement park ride for a theme park using a maximum of 1400 K’Nex pieces and at least one K’Nex motor.  

In this challenge the park owners are working to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer and are creating a fun family park that will inspire others to be environmentally friendly. The ride must represent the environmentally friendly approach that the owners are requiring by making “green” a priority in the ride’s design.

The components of the competition required the ride design, an inventory of pieces and budget of the project. Teams also wrote a work journal and created blueprints of their design.  A two minute presentation was prepared for the judges explaining the model and how the design answered the challenge.

Teams were judged on creativity, teamwork, challenge success, design, and presentation.

The YS7 Team earned the Best Creative Design award.  

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