Boomilever
Build Event
Teams design and build a cantilevered beam or truss structure that extends from a vertical Testing Wall and supports a load at a specified distance. Scored on structural efficiency and bonus load.
Division B Events
Engineering & Build Events
Build events challenge teams to design, construct, and test real devices before and during competition. These events reward creativity, precision engineering, and iterative testing.
Helicopter
Build Event
Teams construct, test, and optimize free-flight rubber-powered helicopters to achieve maximum time aloft. Data collection and analysis of test flights is required prior to the tournament.
Hovercraft
Build Event
Participants design, construct, and calibrate a self-propelled air-levitated vehicle that moves down a track and stops as close to a target time as possible.
Mission Possible
Build Event
Teams design and build a Rube Goldberg-style device that completes required Start and Final Actions through a series of specific sequential actions. The device is documented in an Action Sequence List.
Scrambler
Build Event
Teams build a mechanical device that uses energy from a falling mass to transport an egg along a track as quickly as possible and stop as close to the center of a Terminal Barrier without breaking the egg.