Technology Page
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This new 'Technology Page'
contains classroom ideas, project examples, Questions and Answers, etc.
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Also a Question and Answer page will
soon be operating in case teachers have specific concerns.
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Please email
stsearch@bigpond.net.au
if you have a question or two.
Questions and Answers
Question 1:
Do I need to register my students for the Judging Day?
Answer 1:
We do ask that teachers entering students in the Tech Challenge send to the TSTS Director a list of
names by August 8th of those students expected to enter, so we can have participation certificates printed before the day and ensure we have
sufficient judges for the number of entrants. Only those who actually turn up for judging will be charged an entry fee. Other students may
still enter but will only receive a hand-written certificate.
Students will be given an “order of arrival number” for the judging order. Some waiting is to be expected, but being National Science Week,
there will be exhibits of interest in the nearby area for them to observe whilst waiting.
Question 2:
Some of my students want to know if the Ping Pong ball launchers have to sit on the ground or can they be held in the air?
Answer 2:
Once they are set off, you cannot touch them any more so I'd suggest they put them on a stand if they want to start with it elevated...
as long as it can be dismantled into the A4 box.
Question 3:
Do the students need to wear school uniform on the judging day?
Answer 3:
No they don't.
Question 4:
Is the journal required to be bound or in a folder?
Answer 4:
It’s best stapled together in a plastic pocket.
Question 5:
Are parents and teachers able to watch?
Answer 5:
Yes Yes! Teachers may even help us as judges if they are available!
Question 6:
Can the journal contain photos as well as diagrams?
Answer 6:
Yes. Especially to show the modifications you have made to the design to show improved accuracy.
2009 Technology
Challenge
"Excerpt from
Newsletter No 3, 17Jun09"
I know a few
schools where students are already busy designing and building their ping-pong
ball launchers for the Technology section of TSTS. Here is a great opportunity
to “learn by doing” about gravity, forces and motion, and link up with studies
on space flight.
The
Northern Public Judging Day
will be held on Sunday August 16 at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery,
Invermay Road, Inveresk (Launceston) between 9am and approx 1pm.
The
Southern Public Judging Day
will be held at The Activities Centre at the University of Tasmania Campus at
Sandy Bay on Sunday August 23, 9am until approx 12:30. Judging for
NW
students will be arranged by negotiation.
Students need
to bring their launcher to be judged, as well as their construction journal
outlining the “design, make, evaluate” process they have worked through. The
journal will be left at the venue for further scrutiny by judges. As this event
falls during National Science Week there will be many displays at the QVMAG of
interest to students and families while they wait. It is Open Day at Hobart UTAS
campus, so there will be other events as well there. We have had up to 100
entries in Launceston before, so families will need to be prepared to be
patient!
For further
details see:
2009 Booklet Page 4 or the
Technology Page
Any questions
regarding this can be emailed to the Director
stsearch@bigpond.net.au
and the answers will be displayed on the Technology page on the website.
Classroom Idea ~ Ping Pong Launcher
"Conceived and developed by Raghuveer Parthasarathy and Dan Durkin
UCB physics dept."
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