The Design Challenge: Vehicle Crumple Zone

The focus of this year’s Design Challenge is for students to design and build a simple vehicle crumple zone using materials supplied. The performance of the crumple zone will be judged on:

1. Most effective design to absorb the impact energy during a crash test
2. Deceleration rate vs. crush time, and
3. Optimized use of material

The design requirements, limitations and materials will be provided at the start of the challenge.

Students will plan, build, and test their designs on Wednesday, March 25th, 2020 at Sir William Mulock Secondary School using materials provided by York Chapter Professional Engineers Ontario.

• 4 students per team.
• 1 teacher/adult representative per team (must not contribute to the design or build process).
• Registration is limited to a maximum of 20 teams from schools within York Region. To maximize the number of participating schools, we limit registration to 1 team per school and place the additional teams on a waiting list.
• Engineering science prizes and certificate will be awarded to the top 3 teams.
• Each student will receive a National Engineering Month Design Challenge T-shirt and a certificate of participation.
• Entry fee is $100 per team and is payable on-line during registration. PEO is a non-profit organization and all proceeds go towards the students and the event.
• Please read the consent form before registration. By registering for the Design Challenge, you agree to the terms of the consent form.

Under the advice of international, federal, provincial and municipal health authorities, and PEO head office who are closely monitoring COVID-19 situation, the PEO York Design Challenge, which was scheduled on March 28th, will be postponed. We will keep you updated to an alternative date. Please note that all attendees will receive email notification of any future changes.

For more information please contact

Steve Poste: York Region District School Board, Centre for Leadership and Learning, Newmarket steve.poste@yrdsb.ca

Daniel Cho, E.I.T: Professional Engineers Ontario York Chapter, Education Director education@peoyork.com