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
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- Upper Elementary
Hoist Design Challenge

Teams of students will design, test, and build a hoist system capable of safely lifting and lowering a heavy load. The apparatus should be envisioned as part of the infrastructure for an underground research facility that is nearly one mile deep.
- 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
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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