Math Tasks & Design Challenges

BROWSE TASKS AND CHALLENGES

Argon Transfer Challenge

How do you safely transfer 70,000 tons of argon nearly one mile underground to the DUNE detectors? Learn about phase changes in matter and design an engineering solution to this ‘enormous’ problem.
- High School
- Middle School
Future Design Challenge

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- Upper Elementary
Going With the Flow

Can you keep an underground crew safe? In this hands-on challenge, students dive deep into the vital world of underground ventilation. After learning how fresh air is circulated through subterranean tunnels, participants will put their skills to the test.
- Middle School
Hoist Design Challenge

Teams of students will utilize the Engineering Design Process to design, test, and build a hoist system capable of safely lifting and lowering a heavy load nearly one mile during vertical transportation.
- Middle School
- Upper Elementary
Shielding Design Challenge

A team of students will design a brick enclosure to create a radiation free environment for a detector searching for one of the rarest forms of radioactive decay--neutrinoless double-beta decay.
- High School
- Middle School
Surviving the Antimatter Apocalypse

Students are presented with a challenge; they are a particle of matter in the early, chaotic universe, and the goal is to avoid annihilation with antimatter to become the "seed" of a future galaxy.
- High School
- Middle School
Water Filtration Challenge

Students work in groups to design, test, and build the most effective water filtration device by following the same design process used by the engineers and scientists who developed the Waste Water Treatment Plant at SURF.

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BROWSE TASKS AND CHALLENGES

Argon Transfer Challenge

Future Design Challenge

Going With the Flow

Hoist Design Challenge

Shielding Design Challenge

Surviving the Antimatter Apocalypse

Water Filtration Challenge

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