Central Coast Science and Engineering Challenge

The Science and Engineering Challenge is a day-long competition designed to provide year 10 high school students with a positive experience of science and engineering.  A maximum of eight (8) schools per day compete against each other at one central venue.

 

It will be presented by The University of Newcastle ln cooperation with the Rotary Club of Gosford on Monday 15 June and Tuesday 16 June 2015.

 

Parents and members of the community are also very welcome to participate and/or watch.  Each team is divided into 8 groups of 2 to 4 students. Each group works on either one full-day activity or two half-day activities. (There are eight different workshop-style activities at each Challenge.)  Each activity is assigned a colour.  Students are given a wrist band the same colour as their activity.  For example, students wearing a silver wrist band will usually do the full-day activity 'The Bridge', but students wearing a purple wristband will do one half-day activity in the morning and a different half-day activiity in the afternoon.

 

Students are awarded points for each activity and the school with the most cumulative points at the end of the day is declared the winner.  The highest scoring winning schools from each state/zone will subsequently compete against each other for a place in the state and - perhaps - the national competition.