Teams will design and build a Boomilever meeting requirements specified in the rules supporting a minimum load and to achieve the highest structural efficiency.
(Official Description will be released in Sept 2020) Competitors must design, build and test a mechanical device which uses the energy from a falling mass to travel along a track as quickly as possible and stop as close to the center of a terminal barrier.
Participants design, build, test and document a Rube Goldberg-like device that completes a required action through an optional series of specific actions.
Teams design, build and test a vehicle using one or two snap mousetraps as its sole means of propulsion to push a paper cup forward, reverse direction, and stop as close as possible to a target point.
Prior to the tournament, teams will design, build and bring up to two bottle rockets to the tournament to launch a ping pong ball attached to a parachute to stay aloft for the greatest amount of time.