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Mind Builders: Multidisciplinary Challenges for Cooperative Team-building and Competition

Mind Builders: Multidisciplinary Challenges for Cooperative Team-building and Competition

Fleisher, Paul
Ziegler, Donald

Paperback

General ReferenceSpecial EducationTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 1591583764
ISBN13: 9781591583769
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Published: Sep 1 2006
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.28 Width: 8.46 Depth: 10.94
Language: English

Like the nationally known Destination Imagination competition, Mind Builders offers simple engineering problems to be solved by student teams. It begins with a few exercises to introduce the team concept. These are followed by ten warm up problems that can be completed within an hour or less, with little advanced preparation. Finally, teachers choose one of 12 engineering challenges to be completed by teams over an extended period, and presented to judges on Challenge Day.

For more than twenty years, the Richmond, Virginia Public Schools' program for gifted students has conducted an interscholastic competition similar to the nationally known competition, Destination Imagination. In the featured contest of this yearly event, teams of five students present solutions to engineering problems that they have worked on for several weeks or more. The problems are multidisciplinary, including elements of research, writing, mathematics and science, and a creative dramatic or musical presentation. Each challenge requires just a few inexpensive materials and a minimum of equipment.

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