About the Event
The IgniteSTEM Design Challenge is a one-day competitive event filled with engaging workshops to encourage students to collaborate with each other when solving real-life problems. Students will work in teams of 3 to 5 to brainstorm ideas and make those ideas come to life.
10:00 - 10:30 - Opening ceremony
10:30 - 11:00 - Keynote speaker
11:00 -11:45 - Ideation workshop
11:45 - 12:30 - Lunch break and social
12:30 - 1:15 - Makerstate workshop for educators
12:30 - 1:45 - Part I of Design Challenge
1:45 - 2:00 - Stretch break and social
2:00 - 3:00 - Part II of Design Challenge
3:00 - 3:45 - Presentations
3:45 - 4:30 - Awards and closing ceremony
Event Schedule
IgniteSTEM Design Challenge Winners
Top Four:
Best Overall 1st: Team Guardians
Best Overall 2nd: Team Twister
Best Overall 3rd: Team Hermits
Best Overall 4th: Team Gargoyle
Honorable Mentions
Team Mariners
Team Comets
Team Rovers
Team Blasters
Team Zap
Team Musketeers
Team Kapow
Team Zoom
Team Phoenix
First Place Presentation
Event Stats Highlights
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Over 230 students, 20 IgniteSTEM members, and 30 educators attended 😮
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The average attendee spent 5hrs and 59mins on Hopin during our event 🤯
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Madeleine Khristov Weinrach, Margo Martin, and Mihir Tanguturi were listed among the most active attendees! 💪
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Team Rapids had the most number of chat messages across any team session chat (at an astounding 460 messages! Wonder what they were chatting about 🤔)
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Campbell Davis, at an astonishing 13 networking requests sent', was the strongest networker across the event. Make sure to check out their LinkedIns 😉
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Throughout the event, we all cumulatively sent 5638 chat messages and initiated 158 networking meetings. Kudos on the engagement!! 🤝