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MSOE Regional Competition Details

1/7/2020

Competition Location
We are now quickly approaching the Regional Competition on Saturday, January 18 at MSOE Kern Center, 1245 N. Broadway, Milwaukee.

Lunches
We will once again provide up to 5 lunch tickets for each team (the three presenters, teacher and mentor). I'm sorry that we cannot provide lunches for everyone. We will be serving a hot dog lunch - all beef hot dogs. If you do have any students that would prefer a veggie burger, I will need to know that a week in advance.

If you would like to order extra lunches they will be $6.00. We can send invoices for anyone that would need one. Please let me know by Friday, January 10 if you need any veggie burgers and extra lunches.

Layout in the Kern Center
We will be having 56 teams on competition day. When teams arrive they will take their models upstairs to the Kern Center Field House and find their table. For their presentation, teams will leave the Field House and go to their designated judging room. We will have 7 judging rooms and 8 rounds of judging. There will be 2 rooms in the downstairs Arena and others throughout the Kern Center. A map will be provided.

Presentation Judging
During presentations judging, the team members, teacher, mentor, parents and any friends are welcome in the room. You are to only be in the presentations that are for your students. Students will give their presentation before a 5-6 person panel of STEM judges. At the end of their presentation, they will be asked questions by the judges. After presenting, they will return upstairs to the Field House for additional Special Awards Judging.

All are welcome upstairs in the Field House all morning to view the models. It is free and open to the public!

Special Awards
When not presenting, teams will be upstairs in the Field House and will be judged by various Special Award judging groups. I will be sending a list with all of the different special awards teams can win.

Schedule for January 18th
7:30 - 8:30 a.m. Teams Arrive
8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Team Check-in
8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Preliminary Judging/Special Award Judging
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 a.m. Staggered Lunch
12:15 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Final Review of Models
1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Announcement of 5 Finalists/Move to Arena
1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Finals Presentations
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Awards Ceremony

Final Future Cities Update

1/2/2020

District Competition
On Friday, January 10th the Saratoga Future Cities teams that qualified based on the school competition will compete with other teams across the district. Below you will find a schedule for the day with team names listed. Teams will give their presentation one of two time slots with the other serving as model judging. During the model judging times, teams will be by their model as judges come around to ask them questions and evaluate specific aspects of the model. Parents are welcome to watch the presentation and/or the model judging.

MSOE
After the District Competition on January 10th, we will announce the 4 teams that qualified for the MSOE competition and 2 alternate teams. As we posted earlier, the regional MSOE competition will be held on Saturday, January 18th. More details will come out with teams that qualify. However, here are a few reminders:

1) Teams need to have at least 3 group members who can attend the competition, since that is how many need to present and should be ready to answer judges questions.

2) Teams are responsible for transporting the model to and from MSOE.

3) The event will start around 7:30 and wrap up in the early afternoon depending on how well teams do at the competition.

STEaM Gallery Walk - Thursday, January 16th
On Thursday, January 16th from 3:00 - 6:00 P.M., we will be hosting our STEaM gallery walk for ALL Future Cities students to present and display the work they have completed over the past several months. Since Future Cities is a presentation based experience, we wanted to offer an evening opportunity for parents to see and hear about the work being done. Therefore, we are asking parents and students to discuss what time frames might potentially work for them to come in and hear the presentations during a 15 minute window. Teams will discuss those times on Monday, January 6th to try to find a common time to present on that Thursday. If a student cannot make that time, they will be welcome to visit to show the model at a different time, but would not be part of the presentation group. We will email parents the confirmation times of these presentations after Monday’s team conversations. Parents and students are also welcome to visit other presentations that night, but how long you stay before or after the presentation is up to you. Thank you again for supporting this very unique project opportunity and we look forward to seeing continued work of our students who are preparing for the district competition.

District Schedule 2020

MSOE Regional Competition Details

Final Future Cities Update

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