Overview of Events
| Bridge Build | To design and construct a paper and glue bridge which will support the greatest weight possible |
| Mousetrap Car Race |
To design and construct a vehicle whose sole source of power is a mousetrap. The challenge is to see which invention will travel 10 meters in the shortest time span. |
| Quiz Show | To get as many correct answers to a one hundred question quiz in a limited period of time |
| Fermi Questions |
Problems whose answers can be estimated only to their order of magnitude |
| Egg Drop | To design a container that will protect a grade AA medium egg from a fall of 5 stories onto a concrete surface |
| Electromagnet | To design and construct an electromagnet capable of holding the most weight |
| Softball Catapult |
To design and construct a catapult which will launch a standard softball with the greatest possible accuracy to a target located 40 meters away |
| New Event | "It is a surprise." |
For detailed events, go to http://www.unt.edu/orgs/sps/detailed.htm