WHAT MIT SWE is hosting a campus-wide design competition which will pit teams of seven against each other in an intense battle of quick and creative thinking.
THE CONTEST Given
a box of gadgets, gizmos, and whatchamacallits, can your team build a vehicle
(beaver) faster than everyone else's?
We will group participants into teams of seven people
including MIT students, faculty, alumni and staff, and Cambridge high schoolers.
WHY We're doing
it because
* we want people from all over MIT to get a chance
to meet each other and learn how each other thinks.
* we want to offer the MIT community an opportunity
to reach out to the Cambridge community.
PRIZES Each member of the team with the fastest beaver will receive $50 in cash and one lucky member of that team will also win a Palm Pilot. Members of the second and third place teams will receive gift certificates to local restaurants.
YOUR GAIN Even if your beaver ain't the fastest, you still get a yummy FREE LUNCH, a T-SHIRT, chances to win other PRIZES, and a chance to meet people from different parts of the MIT and Cambridge community.
PARTICIPATE Register
yourself individually to participate in the contest. We will put your team
together for you.
* MIT students, faculty, alumni, and staff can REGISTER
ONLINE
* High schoolers can register by contacting linda@mit.edu
or vanessap@mit.edu
Students, print out this webpage
and invite a professor or a staff worker to the event!
Questions? Please contact mitswe-request@mit.edu.
Updated March 3, 2001