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Event organizers in each community had the flexibility to come up with their own challenges, though they were all based on the Alberta school curriculum and reinforced science concepts students are learning at school. Some of the more complex challenges were work-at-home projects. Teams spent weeks — and even months — perfecting their creations before bringing them to the APEGA Science Olympics to be tested and judged. In Edmonton, elementary school students built Rube Goldberg BOT POWER, BOAT POWER Left Participants in the APEGA Science Olympics in Calgary try their hands at creations from FIRST Robotics. FIRST Robotics, an organization with similar goals to those of the APEGA Science Olympics, attended for demonstration purposes. Bottom A student at the APEGA Medicine Hat Science Olympics blows up a balloon to power his team’s self-propelled boat, made from a chocolate milk carton and other materials.
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