{"id":3041,"date":"2016-11-03T16:54:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T00:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/?p=3041"},"modified":"2016-11-03T16:54:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T00:54:25","slug":"mind-mazes-rodent-racers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2016\/11\/03\/mind-mazes-rodent-racers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind a-Mazes in Rodent Racers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forty-four registered teams with close to 200 students from fourth grade through high school competed in the KPBSD annual \u201cMind A-Mazes\u201d meet on Saturday, October 15, 2016, at Soldotna Prep School. Teams came from all parts of the peninsula \u2013 Homer, Hope, Seward, Nikiski, Moose Pass, and the Central Peninsula.
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\nThis year\u2019s annual \u201cMind A-Mazes\u201d challenge had teams exercise their communication, teamwork, engineering, and problem-solving skills while constructing and testing a vehicle powered solely by a single mousetrap. The annual challenge is made possible through the active participation of district Quest program (gifted education) teachers, as well as a host of other teachers, volunteers, and supporters. The \u201cRodent Racers\u201d problem challenged team vehicles to travel a distance of 21 feet with accuracy and speed. If a team\u2019s device met all of the problem requirements and limitations and hit a can target at the end of a 21 foot lane (without going outside of a three foot wide lane), then it qualified for a second heat in which the speed at which it traveled the lane and hit the target were measured.
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