OUT OF THE WOODS 2009

NATIONAL INNOVATIVE DESIGN CHALLENGE

CO2 DRAGSTER State (WA) Championships - September 2009

National Innovative Design Championships - October 2009

Click here for 2009 results

The purpose of the CO2 DRAGSTER competition is to provide a means for students to demonstrate their ability using Design Make Appraise (DMA) principals to draw, design and then build a dragster within a set of specifications.

Aimed mainly at schools, there is also an open category available to TAFE college, university, business and private teams.

The spirit of the event is to build an inexpensive but safe and effective machine in an environment of open-ended learning and team work.

Value Adding Quest

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Design Situation

Australia produces a wondrous array of natural resources. These primary products include silver, cotton, wool, timber, wheat, fruit and vegetables which we export to other countries, often in their natural state. Australians then import manufactured goods made from our own primary products, now at a much higher price. Other countries have added value to our primary products. To take our place as a knowledge economy within the global community, Australians need to develop products, processes or concepts designed for the local and export market that add value to our locally produced primary products.

Design Challenge

Develop a product, process or concept to add value to an Australian primary product.

Ideas

The Quest, based on the Technology and Enterprise Learning Area outcomes can be a cross-learning area project with students achieving outcomes from several learning areas. It can also be based within one or more of the traditional secondary subjects of agriculture, business education, design and technology, home economics and information technology. The following ideas, some from previous years may start you thinking of the many innovative and enterprising ways value can be added to primary products.

Australian International Pedal Prix

Australian International Pedal Prix at Murray Bridge in South Australia have reached 200 as thousands of students, parents and teachers gear up for the big event.

Held over four days in September, the event is the biggest of it's type in the world. Teams from across South Australia have entered, along with many from interstate.

Students will gain an understanding of the modern manufacturing cycle (PLM – Product Life Management), through the opportunity to use the world’s most advanced software CAD / CAM to develop and manufacture their car designs.