Thursday, April 17, 2008
Gold Crown Foundation
150 S Harlan St, Lakewood, CO 80226

The MESA Day event is a hands on engineering competition for our MESA middle school students. Competitions include construction a balsa wood glider, balsa wood bridge, multi-purpose vehicle and multi-task trebuchet. The 2008 MESA Day is scheduled for Thursday, April 17, 2008 at the Gold Crown Foundation, 150 S. Harlan St., Lakewood, CO 80226.

The overall objective of the MESA Day is to:

- Encourage teamwork.
- Encourage parent and teacher involvement in student activities.
- Develop interpersonal and group skills.
- Encourage honesty and fair play in life situations through competition.
- Develop responsibility and integrity.

CHEN and MESA hope that through the competitions:

• - Students will participate in activities designed to demonstrate and nurture math, engineering and technical skills.
• - Students will understand the relevancy between the math, science and communications skills they are being taught and --their importance in the workplace.
• - Students will be challenged by the activities designed to stimulate their analytical and creative skills.
• - Students will have fun doing all of the above.
  
  

CHEN and MESA reserves the right to:

• - Disqualify any team for breaking the general rules or individual competition rules.
• - Remove or disqualify any team or team members for inappropriate behavior while participating at the competition event --and throughout our time at the mall.
• - Individual competition representatives for each event will make final judgment on any decisions.
  

- In the spirit of fair play and to prevent misconduct, all participants and advisors are charged with maintaining and ----
--following the rules listed herein.

Design Challenge Information

Design Challenge Title	Type of Challenge	Rules and Guidelines
Air Powered Vehicle	Improv	[pdf]
Brain Teaser	Improv	[pdf]
Impromtu Challenge	Improv	[pdf]
Balsa Wood Glider	Prepared in Advance	[pdf]
Bridge Building	Prepared in Advance	[pdf]
Electronic School Spirit Presentation	Prepared in Advance	[pdf]
Multi-Purpose Vehicle	Prepared in Advance	[pdf]
Multi-Task Trebuchet	Prepared in Advance	[pdf]
--2007-08 Multi Task Trebuchet Rules		[more info]
Triplicity	Prepared in Advance	[pdf]

Registration Information
Registration Deadline - March 28, 2008
Click here to download registration form >>

The MESA Day event is limited to 500 MESA students. Registration is on a first-come first-serve basis and we will register teams until all the slots are filled. The competition is formatted in round-robin style, meaning students/advisor will sign up for competition slots. Given availability, students should be able to compete in all design challenges. On the registration, please indicate all events that your students would like to compete in. 

Send completed registration forms to:

Colorado MESA
Middle School MESA Day Registration
University of Colorado Denver
PO Box 173364, CB 104
Denver, CO 80217
(fax) 303.556.2344