Creative youth contest 2018 – Interesting and unique experience

December 24, 2018

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In order to create a science playground and encourage creativity for students, on December 17^th, 2018, The School of Engineering of Tan Tao University (TTU) held a Creative Youth Contest 2018. The Competition is in the framework of Introductory Mechanics so most of the contestants are students who are attending this class. In addition, this contest is also open for students of other schools, especially School of Medicine.

Ky thuat 0 — The judges of the Creative Youth Contest 2018 (From the left: MA. Isaac Smith – School of Humanities and Languages; Dr. Cao Tien Dung, Dr. Tran Hoai Nam and Dr. Tran Duy Hien – School of Engineering)

The content of the contest includes two major part: “Funny Invention” and “Water Rocket”

“The Funny Invention” section was held at Gillis Hall. Participating teams had to invent things applied learned Physics principles by using simple and environmental friendly materials. In addition, each team will have 5 minutes to present the mechanism and meaning in the decoration of water rockets and things created.

Ky thuat 01 — The teams participating in the 2018 Creative Youth Competition were focusing on the presentations at the Gillis hall at Tan Tao University.

Ky thuat 02 — Water rockets and creative inventions of participating teams.

Ky thuat 03 — Representatives of Group 1 presented The Tumbling Toy to the judges.

Ky thuat 04 — Presentations and creations of teams bring attractiveness and fun to the audiences.

Ky thuat 05 — Representatives of Group 2 presented their creations in releasing pressure for students by creating funny toys.

Ky thuat 06 — The funny and useful invention of group 2 made it easy for student to invent and entertain after stressful hours of school.

Ky thuat 07 — Students were extremely interested in the inventions of each group

Ky thuat 08 — Group 3 brought to the competition The Hologram – Full Image Technique in the presentation by simple and familiar materials.

Ky thuat 09 — Group 4 with a great sense of humour impressed the judges with its presentation.

Ky thuat 10 — And also apply precise method of formulas.

Ky thuat 11 — The judges and contestants are very interested in this creation.

The most interesting part is the 2nd contest – “Water Rocket” took place at the Prince’s Football Field. The content of the test includes “Long-range water rocket” and “High-altitude water rocket launcher”. Each team must apply the knowledge learned from Introductory Mechanics to create their own water rocket so that they can fly far or high.

Ky thuat 12 — Teams focused on water rocket testing for the last time to prepare for the competition.

Ky thuat 13 — The amount of water used for each water rocket is also quite important to define whether the water rocket can work well or not.

Ky thuat 14 — Teams took final preparation before starting to fire water missiles.

The long-range missiles were made from 1.5L plastic bottles, the rocket’s head and body were linked with silicone glue. Besides, our team’s water decoration ideas were really eye-catching and the meaning was also one of the points counted in the contest.

Ky thuat 15 — The judges were evaluating the initial preparation of each team.

The high-altitude missile has a structure which is similar to a long-range missile, but has an extra compartment made from recycled nylon and designed to open parachute when the missile falls.

Some pictures from the contest and the results of the teams:

The image of the firing water rocket and opening parachutes made viewers extremely excited.

The teams also had many hilarious moments. The joining hands to contribute and help was also one of the beautiful images of the contest.

At the end of the competition, Group 4 was excellent to win as it had the longest missile range as well as the longest time to fall. Group 1 was the second runner up. The third prize was divided into groups 2 and 3.

Ky thuat 24 — Group 2 and Group 3 with the third place of the 2018 Creative Youth Competition.

Ky thuat 25 — Group 1 won the second place of the competition.

Ky thuat 26 — The champions of the 2018 Creative Youth Competition

The 2018 Creative Youth Competition not only created moments of healthy competition but also facilitated students to be creative and increase solidarity, mutual support for success which are special things of students of Tan Tao University.