Time Line of The STEM Event- Lego to the Rescue

Time Event Details

9:00am- Arrival and sign on Students will arrive at the
9:30am Memorial Swimming Pool, head
to and complete registration.
9:30am- Welcome Welcome: Olivia Mansfield
10:00am (Coordinator)
Introductions
Guest Speakers: John and Gary
Safety
Haines
Safety/Instructions: Olivia
Mansfield
10:00am- Meet the teams and All students should have
10:30am Schools registered their teams. Each
team will come on up and
introduce them selves, their
grade and school.
10:30am- Introduce Challenge and Speaker: John Haines
11:15am Sketch and design your
Sketching boating on activity
LEGO boat.
sheet.
11:15am- Lunch and Socialise Lunch will be provided from
11:45am Subway Mackay. (ANY
ALLERIGIES PLEASE COMPLETE
ON REGISTRATION)
11:45am- Building your LEGO boat. Once you are satisfied with the
12:15pm design students start building
your boat.
12:15pm- Session 1: Shallow End Session 1: Test your boat in the
12:30pm of Pool water. Does it float? If needed go
back and re-design your boat.
12:15pm- Session 2: Deep End of (Year 5 students, 10 teams)
12:30pm Pool
12:30pm- Prediction of Pennies Session 2: Test your boat in the
12:40pm water. Does it float? If needed go
back and re-design your boat.
12:40pm- Session 3: Shallow End (Year 6 students, 10 teams)
1:00pm of Pool (Year 5 Students)
Prediction: Predict how many
Session 4: Deep End of pennies you think your boat will
Pool (Year 6 Students) hold before it starts to sink.

Session 3 and 4: Test 1-Slowly

add the pennies (one at a time)
 to your boat. (How many pennies
can you add before your boat
starts to sink?)(Teams at a time-
see Team Schedule for details)

1:00pm- Redesign of LEGO boat Students have five minutes to re-

1:05pm design their boat to see if they
can hold even more pennies.
(Cannot be the same as any
other design)

1:05pm- Repeat Session 3 and 4 Session 3 and 4: Test 2- After

1:25pm re-designing slowly add the
pennies (one at a time) to your
boat. (How many pennies can
you add before your boat starts
to sink?)(Teams at a time- see
Team Schedule for details)

1:25pm- Redesign of LEGO boat Students will again have five

1:30pm minutes to re-design their boat to
see if they can hold even more
pennies. (Cannot be the same as
any other design)

1:30pm- Repeat Session 3 and 4 Session 3 and 4: Test 3- After

1:50pm re-designing slowly add the
pennies (one at a time) to your
boat. (How many pennies can
you add before your boat starts
to sink?)(Teams at a time- see
Team Schedule for details)

2:00pm Conclusion and Speakers: John and Gary Haines

Presentation
2.30pm Group Photo Speaker: Olivia Mansfield
(Coordinator)
Sign out

* Please note: Schedule may be subject to change on the

day.