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The objective of the Sensis Student Engineering Contest is to spark interest in engineering as a career by providing high school students hands-on engineering experience to demonstrate that engineering can be challenging, rewarding and fun.
The problems tackled by the student teams - with help from their Sensis mentors - are designed to challenge the team in the areas of:
- Critical thinking and problem solving
- Organizational skills and time management
- Application of theoretical principals
- Design of experiments and analysis of empirical data
- Oral and written presentation of results
The contest lasts approximately six weeks and features:
A kickoff presentation and facility tour at Sensis Corporation. Gives a broad introduction to the engineering profession, and an opportunity to expose high school students to an engineering environment. The students participate in an exercise designed to teach skills important to engineering problem solving.
A Preliminary Design Review (PDR) conducted at Sensis Corporation. Students present their conceptual design, tradeoffs made and results of supporting analyses. The PDR is a role-play event where Sensis staff members play the role of the customer and the student teams give a PowerPoint presentation of their findings.
A competitive demonstration conducted in a school gymnasium. Student teams demonstrate how their designs perform relative to their competitors. The teams demonstrate the degree to which their device satisfies the defined performance objectives.
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