
The Pop-Up Innovation Challenge will focus on engaging with students on campus to educate them on the importance of innovation, and will spread awareness about the BI degree program through a fun innovative challenge.
Challenges will focus primarily on innovation but will also tie in concepts such as creativity, communication, collaboration, etc.
Challenge 1: April 8th, 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Students will have the option of participating in one of the two provided challenges:
Save the penguins: this challenge engages students in both innovation and collaboration, the goal of the challenge was to move the penguins to safety while using as many of the materials as possible.
Place | Name/Names | Score |
1 | Steve Cruz and Justin Karpan-Lowman | 50/50 |
2 | Heron Szyba | 46/50 |
3 | Rachel Sadler and Joseph Maruna | 40/50 |
4 | Sean Chen | 35/50 |
5 | Austin Johnson | 34/50 |
6 | Jennifer Coyne | 32/50 |
7 | Morgan Schachterle | 30/50 |
OR
Lilly Pad: this challenge engages students in both innovation and engineering. Students were scored based on their ability to save all three toads, and their use of the provided materials.
Place | Name/Names | Score |
1 | Clare Guischard | 48/50 |
3 | Noelle Windersheim | 38/50 |
4 | Ronan Witte | 35/50 |
5 | Thiery Jones and Steven Farmer | 35/50 |
6 | Emily Aragon | 32/50 |
7 | Rachel Sadler | 30/50 |
Challenge 2: April 22nd, 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Students will have the option of participating in one of the two provided challenges:
The oldest, tallest tower: Students will engage in both innovation and creativity by creating a tower that can stand for 30 seconds. Scores are based on the height of the tower, if it can last the total time, and how materials were used.
Place | Name | Score |
1 | Rice Province | 50/50 |
2 | Matt Rieth | 49/50 |
3 | Justin Karpan-Lowman | 48/50 |
4 | Arianna Swenson | 46/50 |
4 | Lailani Tyler | 46/50 |
4 | Karel Hernandez Bandrich | 46/50 |
5 | Shawn Partin | 42/50 |
6 | Brad Baker | 35/50 |
7 | Steve Cruz | 34/50 |
8 | Brian Yee | 32/50 |
9 | April Slawson | 29/50 |
10 | Connor Palmore | 26/50 |
11 | Matt Berg | 26/50 |
12 | Austin Johnson | 25/50 |
OR
Lego Language: students will learn to utilize skills of innovation and communication by creating their own language using three lego pieces. Students will be tested on their ability to recall defined words. Students are scored based on the difficulty of lego pieces used and the time taken to guess the correct word.
Place | Name/Names | Points |
1 | Steven Farmer and Thiery Jones | 50/50 |
2 | Justin Karpan-Lowman and Steve Cruz | 45/50 |
3 | Stephanie Moyer and Shawn Partin | 43/50 |
4 | Ciara Fergin, Chris Casias, and Alex Chambers | 40/50 |
4 | Jacklynn Snyder, Chloe Mundorf, Karel Hernandez | 40/50 |
4 | Connor Palmore and Lailani Tyler | 40/50 |
A Note From the Challenge Creators: Brenna Nelson and Nathan Sanders
“As Bachelor of Innovation students, we have learned how integral innovation is to success. This program has changed our lives for the better, and we hope to share some of what we have learned with the general student population in a fun and engaging manner.”
For any questions, please email bnelson5@uccs.edu.
Click here to complete the evaluation survey for the Pop-Up Innovation Challenge!