Transcript NFPA Fluid Power Challenge PPT

NFPA Fluid Power Challenge
Workshop Day – April 18, 2008
Challenge Day – May 9, 2008
“The Challenge is meant to complement the fluids section in
many science and technology curricula and gives students the
hands-on experience of designing, building and demonstrating a
fluid-power based mechanism to solve an assigned problem.”
Bryan Kind - Kettle Moraine High School Technology and
Engineering Instructor
Workshop Day
April 18, 2008
Kettle Moraine High School
The Workshop Day brought the 8th grade teams together
to learn about fluid power and develop the skills needed
for the competition. Steve Rogers, the facilitator for the
Canadian Fluid Power Challenge, worked with the teams
during the workshop.
“This is so cool!”
Kettle Moraine Middle School student
The Teams
Hmong American Peace Academy (HAPA
Heroes) Sheng Yang, Koyoua Vang, Teacher
Scott Jex, Dan Vue and Peter Xiong (left to right)
Luxemburg-Casco Middle School
Loren Le Fevre, Amber Clark, Teacher Joe
Kempke, Emily Brunette and Ryvkah Andersen
(left to right)
Team 4:
Kettle Moraine Middle School
Reggie Peters, Maddie Churches, Dylan Homnth
and Sarah Smith (no picture available)
Kettle Moraine Middle School Corinne Guillama,
Ryan Nihoris, Jamie Quinn, Cole Harris and
Teacher Walter Dombrowski (left to right)
Steve Rogers welcomes the
teams to the Workshop Day
After instructions from Steve, the teams get
to work on building a pneumatic lifter.
Hmong American Peace Academy Team
(HAPA Heroes) build their pneumatic lifter
Luxemburg-Casco Middle School
build their pneumatic lifter
Construction of the pneumatic lifter
Steve Rogers demonstrates the pneumatic
lifter and offers advice on the challenge
The Challenge
SCENARIO:
You are a team of highly trained experts in the field of Explosive
Materials Handling.
Your firm has been commissioned to design a controlled hydraulicpowered device that will safely move containers of highly explosive
material between two storage areas that lie across a deadly canyon.
THE CHALLENGE:
The assignment for your team is to design and build a model that picks
up containers from one storage area (1), rotates to a position facing a
second storage area (2), and then deposits the containers into the
second area. Dropped containers can’t be recovered. Your task will be
to transport as many containers as possible between the two storage
areas in time frame of three (3) minutes.
Starting to design a fluid power
mechanism for the challenge
Tom Wanke, professor at Milwaukee School of
Engineering, talks to the group about careers,
research, college internships and
the future of fluid power.
The teams will now take their kits, including tools and supplies,
back to school to work on the challenge scenario and design,
build and test a prototype. They will then refine and redesign their
prototype and use the updated design to build their fluid power
mechanism during the Challenge Day, May 9th.
“The Fluid Power Challenge held at Kettle Moraine High
School was a great experience. All of my students were fired
up to get working on the Fluid Powered Arm.”
Joe Kempke – Teacher at Luxemburg-Casco
Middle School
Challenge Day
May 9, 2008
Kettle Moraine High School
The NFPA Fluid Power Challenge will ask students
to design and build fluid-power mechanisms that
will pick-up a container from one platform, rotate to
face a different platform and then deposit the
container onto that second platform. The number of
pick-and-place cycles a school’s machine
completes in the demonstration time will be used to
calculate the final evaluation.
The Judges
Tom Wanke – Milwaukee School of Engineering
(Head Judge)
Steve Gluck – Sauer-Danfoss Inc.
Ed Howe – Enfield Technologies
Dwight Stephenson – HUSCO International, Inc.
The judges talked with students about their designs,
decisions, teamwork and reviewed their portfolios.
Morning of the Challenge Day
Students build their fluid power mechanism and talk with judges.
Teachers toured HUSCO International, Inc.
Dwight Stephenson – HUSCO International, Inc. talks with the students from
Hmong American Peace Academy (HAPA Heroes).
Hmong American Peace Academy
(HAPA Heroes)
Tom Wanke, Milwaukee School of Engineering,
talks with students from Luxemburg-Casco
Middle School.
Luxemburg-Casco Middle School
Steve Gluck, Sauer-Danfoss Inc., talks with
students from Kettle Moraine Middle School.
Kettle Moraine Middle School
Judges Steve Gluck, Sauer-Danfoss Inc., and Ed
Howe, Enfield Technologies, confer on a portfolio.
More building – no time even
for lunch!
Kettle Moraine Middle School
Luxemburg-Casco Middle School
Hmong American Peace Academy
(HAPA Heroes)
After lunch – Testing
Luxemburg-Casco Middle School
The 3 Minute Challenge
Luxemburg-Casco Middle School
Luxemburg-Casco Middle School
The 3 Minute Challenge
Hmong American Peace Academy
(HAPA Heroes)
Hmong American Peace Academy
(HAPA Heroes)
The 3 Minute Challenge
Kettle Moraine Middle School
Kettle Moraine Middle School
The Winner…moving 17 canisters in 3 minutes…
Luxemburg-Casco Middle School
1st Place
Luxemburg-Casco Middle School
2nd Place
Kettle Moraine Middle School
3rd Place
Hmong American Peace Academy (HAPA Heroes)
Congratulations to each team!
Each team managed to move at least one canister. Team
members also received Certificates of Achievement.
“Bestest challenge
ever!”
“Neat!”
“Fun!”
“This is so cool!”
Student quotes
Thank you to the sponsors
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Air Logic
Alro Steel Corporation
Command Controls Corp.
Deltrol Fluid Products
Enfield Technologies
HUSCO International, Inc.
OEM Off-Highway
The Oilgear Co.
Sauer-Danfoss Inc.
Thank you also to
Bryan Kind - Kettle Moraine High School
Technology and Engineering Instructor
And his students:
KM Robotics, Team 2077 and Team 1988
Mark your calendar
The next NFPA Fluid Power Challenge will be
held at the Milwaukee School of Engineering
Dates:
Workshop Day – November 14, 2008
Challenge Day – December 12, 2008
Contact Tammy Molter at 414-778-3349 or
[email protected] for more information.