The Contest Rules

MechEverest!

Rules Updates, Clarifications and Notices

The Contest

The contest gives you a real design goal on which to focus.

• Learning is enhanced with a real-world focused problem.
• The contest is also a means to compare your design to other designs.
• In the real world, you will be judged and compared every day.
• History shows the contest is 50% designing and building, and 50% driving.

This year's contest is called MechEverest!

• Design and build a remotely controlled machine that achieves the highest score at the end of a 45 second contest.
• The contest table is comprised of four sections, each at increasing angles of inclination.
• The contest table is made of sheet steel. It will be painted.
• Each competitor may begin with UP TO ten hockey pucks loaded into their machine.
• The object is to drop the pucks into the cross-shaped holes as high as possible on the table. The competitor's score increases
  exponentially with the height up the ramp.  The lowest holes are worth 1 point per puck, the middle: 2, the top: 5!
• The starting zone comprises all the surface area which is horizontal (0 degree section on the contest tables), including the colored frame. The starting zone also extends beyond the horizontal surface by 1" in all directions. On the walled side, this 1" is measured form the outside of the wall.
• A machine's starting configuration must be able to fit unconstrained into the green shipping box, with the lid on the correct way.
• No machine may touch the side walls of the table before the contest begins.
• The maximum current that may be drawn from the umbilical is 7A.

Read the contest description and rules very carefully! Check the web for updates