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What's involved:
Each year students are challenged to undertake a specific project.
The 2022 project is to build a line launcher. Line launchers can be used to fire a rope from one ship to another at sea, or for various other rescue scenarios, such as delivering a line to a high-rise building, or pulling a zip line over a divide.
Teams are tasked to produce a small-scale indoor device, to fire a squash ball attached to a line, at a horizontal target, from various distances. There are many methods of firing projectiles; such devices require a controlled and safe method of energy storage with a reliable release mechanism.
For 2023’s Design Challenge, teams will be tasked with building an internal pipe-climbing robot. This is a device that can climb up the inside of a piece of vertical transparent tube lifting an increasing load, limited only by the cost and sizings listed in the competition specifications.
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Students are challenged to undertake a specific project to design, build and test:
- 2018 – an internal pipe-climber
- 2019 – an external pipe-climber
- 2021 – a repeatable vehicle
- 2022 – a line launcher
- 2023 – an internal pipe-climber
News & Updates
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"More was learned from the manufacturing, prototyping and testing of our device including failures and successes, providing an understanding of real-world processes before the final reward of having a fully working product."
