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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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!

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