Aggies Invent Junior is a 1.5-day program designed to engage students in a multi-disciplined, multi-level, intense design experience that is focused on solving real-world needs provided by industry and agency partners.
The structure of the program is to introduce students to various challenges, have them self-select teammates from other schools, engage in an active design process, build and test their design and finally provide a presentation to “sell” their solution to a select set of judges. Aggies Invent Junior is not a Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) competition. Students may use CAD software to communicate design attributes within their presentations, but it is not a requirement of Aggies Invent Junior. However, we advise all students to bring a laptop computer, which will be used heavily for research and presentation creation. Aggies Invent Junior is NOT a competition to showcase the best school in the state. Schools will not be going head-to-head in the challenge. Rather, the challenge focuses on simulating industry environments where individuals work collaboratively to generate ideas and solutions. Instead of joining a team of friends or being forced to solve a problem, your students can choose a problem that speaks to them individually and will self-select the needs statement and team they wish to join.
Questions? Contact Morgan Williamson at mhwill@tamu.edu or 979-458-9794.