Erica Dakin Voolich
On Sunday, October 25, twelve teams of Somerville Students gathered in “The Cage” at Cousens Gym at Tufts to participate in this year’s annual Scrapheap Showdown sponsored by The Somerville Mathematics Fund. This year’s problem involved building a marble maze to get from one corner of a banquet table to the opposite corner of a 2nd table two feet away.
Instead of just building a ramp from table corner to table corner, students had loop-the loops, spirals, cup elevators, triggers... all sorts of interesting Rube-Goldber-like obstacles.
As a member of the Somerville Mathematics Fund board, I was involved in the designing, testing and adjusting of the problem. We got to actually build our own solution, as we do each year, to know that it is possible and to figure out the scoring system. When the kids started working on the problem, their solutions were totally different, unique, creative and exciting.
Take a minute to look at the pictures of each of the teams hard at work on their projects and read all about the A-Mazing event in the Somerville Journal. Prior to the event, the Tufts online newsletter wrote about the upcoming event.
This year’s teams were:
Rubber Duckies
• Paulo Filipe Dourado
• Nelson Moreira
• Matthew Bedell
AMS Alliance
• Matthew Correia
• Sergio Resendes
• Adam Hughes
Freaks in Control
• Sabrina Ozit
• Lola Yu
The Coopers
• Michael Shamshak
• David Cooper
• Kayla Landry
You have to Spend Money to Make Money
• Nat Dempkowski
• Yongkang Yu
• Nathan Long
The Bird is the Word
• Danny Huang
• Nicholas Cruz
•Michael Conte
Bp(as)^2
• Bipul Pyakuryal
• Aakash Sharma
• Avtar Singh
The Devastators
• Mohammad Sheikh
• Timur Addul Talil
• Anandpreet Singh
De Villens
• Deepika Bhargo
• Aaron Nevin
• Tara Costiner
P.M. Norm
• Norman Li
• Pristine Mei
• Michele Mei
The Stern Halloran Man
•Christopher Halloran
• Jacky Man
• Jesse Stern
Asian Avengers V2
• David Huang
• Raymond Li
• Joshua Ren
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