GS Engineering Design Challenge 2018

April 26, 2018

On Saturday, April 28, Georgia Southern will host the 2018 Engineering Design Challenge to showcase the ingenuity and creativity of eight high school students teams — five from Chatham County and three from Bulloch County.  The teams will design and build battery-powered, self-propelled go-karts.

The final competition will include a 15-meter sprint-to-stop race, a timed maneuvering course, a tug-of-war race and a design poster presentation with an engineering journal evaluation. Engineers from local companies will evaluate and select the winning design. The winning team will receive a cash prize. For more information, please visit http://engineering.armstrong.edu/edc/.

WHEN:
Saturday, April 28, 2018
Competition begins at 1 p.m.
*1:15 p.m. Student poster presentations and maneuvering race
*2:00 p.m. Incline/Sprint to stop races

WHERE:
Georgia Southern University – Armstrong Campus
Pirate Athletic Center, Building #20