The 7th annual Scrapheap Showdown was a BIG success. You can read about it here.
The students rose to the challenge. They didn't know until they arrived that they were going to build musical instruments. They did a wonderful job. Their instruments needed to play a diatonic scale and a simple tune in the key of C from a given list of melodies. They earned more points buy building different kinds of instruments (string, percussion, wind) and by automation the playing of the melody.
Mother Nature cooperated and didn't dump large amounts of snow in Somerville and Medford -- Thank you!
Tufts University was a wonderful host -- Thank you!
The design team who spent months designing and testing the challenge, and then collected and hauled the junk to Tufts were fabulous -- Thank you!
Our sponsors and donors who made the event and prizes possible were great -- Thank you!
If you'd like to see the pictures from each of the teams, check out the links below:
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