Marble Maze Junkyard Wars

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Marble maze junkyard wars.

This stem project encourages teamwork as students utilize the engineering design process to design build test and re engineer a marble maze created with limited materials. The marble must enter the maze at point a located less than 5 cm from the top left corner of the poster board. Magnificent marble maze build a marble maze that will result in the longest run time. Buy one of each to use one on either end of your books dvds video games or whatever you want to stack side by side.

Be sure to check out the junk box wars resources section for other project materials. While studying the laws of motion we create these mazes with the objective of having the slowest maze. A show in which each week two rival teams are given the task of building some kind of machine in one day using only the items found in an unusually well stocked scrapyard. Each group is given a box or bag with the same materials and each team has the same time to design the best possible maze that will allow a standard marble to make the longest possible run.

Points will be awarded for different design elements such as ramps hills spirals and loops. Zone build a parachute that will help an egg land safely on a target or magnificent marble maze build a marble maze that will result in the longest run time. In fact they would go great together. Junkyard wars is an annual theta tau tradition in which students compete in teams to build complex machines that perform simple tasks out of craft supplies said connor whitley the event organizer and a junior aerospace engineering and materials engineering double major.

The junk box wars projects are modeled after the junkyard wars tv show that aired on the learning channel network. Super slingers create a device that will launch a projectile bouncy ball or large marshmallow at a target to earn. The junk box wars projects are modeled after the junkyard wars tv show that aired on the learning channel network. The marble must exit the maze at point b located less than 5 cm from the bottom right corner of the poster board.