Projects

The task is to design and build several rotating machines that are powered by thunderstorms underway around the earth.

(2 votes, average: 3.50 out of 5)

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The task is to design and build a transportable compressed-air cannon that will launch a baseball far enough to be a homerun over the center fence at Coors Field (415 feet).

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The task is to design, build, and test a bench-top-scale electromagnetic railgun.

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The task is to design, build and test a copper-chloride (CuCl) and/or copper-bromide (CuBr) laser.

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The task is to design and build an x-ray machine capable of imaging low-density inanimate objects.

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The task is to design and build a device that crushes aluminum soda cans using intense pulsed magnetic fields.

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The task is to design, build and test a device that launches scrap aluminum hard-drive platters high in the air using pulsed magnetic fields.

(1 votes, average: 1.00 out of 5)

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The task is to design, build and test a propane-fired turbine jet engine manufactured from an automotive turbocharger.

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In this Grand Challenge, the Team is to design, build and display a version of Jeff Lieberman’s floating Light Bulb art.

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The task is to build a pair of single-person racing hovercraft, sell them, and use the money to build an advanced two-person hovercraft.

(1 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)

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The task is to design, build and test a continuously operating high-power CO2 laser with an output power of 50 watts.

(2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)

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The task is to design, build and test a really big Van de Graaff generator. The voltage goal for the machine is 750,000 volts.

(2 votes, average: 3.50 out of 5)

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The task is to design, build, and test a liquid-fueled rocket engine.

(4 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)

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The task is to design, build and test a Lockwood-Hiller style valveless pulsejet engine. The engine will be powered by propane and ignited by a timed electric spark. The optimized engine will become the propulsion package on a student-build vehicle (go-kart), as a separate follow-on project.

(5 votes, average: 2.40 out of 5)

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The task is to design and build an electromagnetic device similar to Elihu Thomson’s Jumping Ring experiment.

(2 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)

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The task is to analyze the performance and specifications of the MXB Shocker Model R and construct a similar device of equal capability. The Motocross Board is a two-wheeled, off-road vehicle that rides similar to a snowboard due to a front-wheel swivel.

(2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)

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The task is to design, build and test a table-top nitrogen (N2) laser operating at 120 pps in air with some nitrogen enrichment.

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The task is to design, build and experiment with an atmospheric pressure plasma jet (APPJ).

(1 votes, average: 2.00 out of 5)

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The task is to design and build your own version of the amazing ATLAS rope ascender capable of hoisting a 250 pound payload at a rate of 10 feet/sec.

(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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The task is to design and build a Rubens’ Tube, similar to the one demonstrated by Heinrich Rubens in 1904.

(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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The task is to design, build and test two sonoluminescence chambers and demonstrate a glowing bubble in each containing different liquids and gasses

(1 votes, average: 2.00 out of 5)

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The task is to design and build an alpha-style Stirling engine powered by the sun.

(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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The task is to design and build a portable, solar-powered water purifier. Water with known contaminates will be used to determine how quickly and efficiently the system produces potable water.

(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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The task is to design and build a compressed-air/vacuum cannon that accelerates a Ping-Pong ball to velocities beyond Mach 1.0.

(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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The task is to design and build a full-scale vortex cannon powered by a stoichiometric mixture of acetylene and air.

(3 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5)

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The task is to design and build a pair of self-resonant coils that transmits power to a 60-watt light bulb over a distance of several meters.

(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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