2007-2008 National Engineering Design Challenge

High School Students Making a Difference!

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2007-2008 NEDC Registration is NOW OPEN! We have over 100 registrations to date!

The National Engineering Design Challenge (NEDC) is a competition educating young people about careers in engineering, raising social awareness, and inspiring a spirit of engagement and a willingness to help others.

Teams of students will design an Assistive Technology (AT) device to help a person with a disability to perform or increase productivity in his or her job. Students will choose a scenario from two options and work with a person with a disability.

Winning students have an opportunity to travel and win recognition for their creativity. The five top teams win an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, DC to present their designs and compete for prizes at the annual NEDC Finals Competition on February 15-16, 2008. The winning team receives $3,000 for their school's sponsoring department, plus a trip to the 2008 NISH National Training and Achievement Conference — May 4-6, 2008 — in Los Angeles, CA. Two additional winning teams will be awarded $1,500 for their school's sponsoring department.

This is as real as it gets: Real people with real challenges and a real assistive device that you design and build for real prizes!

Get going! Form a team, register, and get ready for your first meeting!

Ready to Register?

Download the 2007-2008 NEDC Handbook

Download the 2007-2008 NEDC Brochure

The Women's World Cup is already in progress, there are only a handful of weeks until the World Series, the Super Bowl is mere months away, and the 2008 Olympics is in less than a year… what better time to discover the engineering involved in large-scale athletic events!

This year the annual TEAMS competition challenges high school students to go Behind the Scenes and solve some of the engineering feats facing event officials at some of the largest athletic events in the world. TEAMS Competitions take place around the country and across the globe throughout February and March, requiring students to work together and apply knowledge learned in the classroom to real-world engineering scenarios.

To kick off the TEAMS season, JETS has announced a t-shirt design contest. Sponsored exclusively by Shell, the contest is open to any TEAMS participant and encourages students to incorporate this year's athletic events theme into a design that will become the graphic on the back of the competition t-shirt -a free gift to all TEAMS students.

Want to find out more?

Check out the T-Shirt Contest Rules

New to TEAMS? Request a free Competition DVD

Visit the TEAMS website