Seminole Ridge SECME: FAU ASME 2nd Annual Engineering Olympics

Friday, October 9, 2009

FAU ASME 2nd Annual Engineering Olympics

The FAU Student Chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers announces our 2nd Annual Engineering Olympics

ABOVE (left to right): Seminole SECME "Hawk Heroes" Aleen Touma, Kayleigh Previte, Ralph Regis, Zack Wiggins, Daniel Lowenthal

When: Friday, October 9, 2009 from 9:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Where: FAU Boca Raton Campus, Live Oak Pavilion, Student Union Building.

ABOVE: Ralph Regis working on popsicle stick bridge challenge.

Objective: Teams compete in a series of engineering challenges or events – similar to the decathlon in the Olympics. Each team receives a ‘brown bag’ of supplies for each event to complete each challenge. FAU ASME members will judge events (5 – 8 in all) and award points. The three highest scoring teams earn a gold, silver or bronze medal for each team member and the gold medal team’s school is presented a trophy.

ABOVE: Daniel Lowenthal ready for judging on parachute challenge .

Registration Information: $50 PER TEAM; limit three teams per school. Each team size cannot exceed five students. Please indicate how many members will be on the team, and make checks payable to ASME at FAU.

Registration Deadline: Friday, October 2nd 5:00 PM Space constraint limits us to 25 –30 teams; please RSVP as soon as possible to reserve a spot in the competition. RSVP to Katharine Lurie at kalurie (at) gmail (dot) com and direct all inquiries to Kate – chairperson of the ASME Olympics Last year’s event was great fun and lots of laugh … high school advisors, we learned our lesson – no “super glue” without acetone readily available this year!

ABOVE: Aleen Touma (left) and Kayleigh Previte (right) work on the aluminum boat challenge.

We are requesting local media coverage (newspapers and television stations) so have teams dress appropriately should they decide to cover this event. Lunch is provided to all participants – including high school advisors!