Design Contest '99

"No Man's Land"

Working in teams of 3, the students have designed and built remotely controlled machines to compete in this year's contest. The playing field: multilevel regions for each competitor separated by "no man's land." The object of the game: collect large yellow balls and get rid of small orange balls, most of which start out in the no man's land. Scores are determined by where the balls rest at the end of the 1 minute contest. Balls in the no man's land do not yield any points.

All machines compete against 2 randomly selected opponents. The 8 teams with the highest individual scores move on to the semifinals. From that point on it's a single elimination tournament (highest score in each round wins and moves ahead).

The winners of the MITE²S 1999 Design Competition

(shown from left to right) Karl Reid, MITE²S Director and Diane Brancazio, Design Instructor, and the winners: Jesse Greene, Sybil Dessie, and Erute Mofoye.

Teamwork Award winners

Luke Mcspadden, Ian Ybarra and Donielle Newell (shown with Reid and Brancazio) also placed second in the competition.

Technical Merit Award winners

Richard Harnandez, Tanya Perkins and Angela Fernandez (shown with Reid and Brancazio).

Interested in more pictures of the contest?
Check out the MITE²S 1999 design contest photo gallery.