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Join Us For Cob & Cog Presented by Duke Energy
September 27, 2024 | 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
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This day promises to be an exciting, educational, and action-packed experience featuring 23 unique team competitions in engineering and agriculture for high school students. Teams of 2-3 will tackle challenges in technology, engineering, agriculture, and precision agriculture, all set in the state-of-the-art facilities at Ivy Tech Community College. This year, we’ve added an additional contest along with several new challenges to make the event even more dynamic.
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DATE: Friday, September 27, 2024
TIME: 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Ivy Tech Community College - South Campus | 1650 E Industrial Drive | Terre Haute, IN 47802QUESTIONS?
Contact Karson Harris at kharris179@ivytech.edu or 812-298-2523 -
- All events can have teams of 2-3 participants, except Quiz Bowl, which is a team of four.
- Teams may only participate in one event as competitions are happening simultaneously.
- Each school is limited to one team per event.
- Each event is limited to 10 teams.
- Schools must be registered by September 6, 2024.
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Cob and Cog Contest Descriptions 2024
NOTE: The Biotechnology Challenge, the Travel Efficiency Challenge, and the Power Tool Drag Race all require advanced preparation. Each school team entering a contest must have 2-3 participants. Limit one school team per contest. Each contest has a capacity of 10 school teams.
1. Crop Consulting- Students will be given an agronomy based scenario, along with data, with an underlying issue and they must come up with a solution to the issue and make a recommendation to the farmer facing the issue.
Advanced Prep/Required to Bring: Nothing
2. Ag Sales contest- Students will use the RSS method to create a customer profile and sell an item, drawn at random the day of the contest, to a judge playing the role of their customer they created. Winner is determined by the team who does the best job of using the RSS method and selling their product to the judge.
Advanced Prep/Required to Bring: Nothing
3. Precision Ag Knowledge- The contest will be based on precision agriculture activities and equipment used during regular cropping seasons in the United States. In general, the contest will include 2 parts: 1) Component ID and 2) Team Lab Practical
Advanced Prep/Required to Bring: Nothing
4. Horticulture- Team and individual participants will compete in 3 parts of the contest: 1) Plant, Equipment, Tool and Supply Identification 2) Plant Judging of various species ranked from 1 to 4. 3)Team lab practical activity.
Advanced Prep/Required to Bring: Nothing
5. Forage Evaluation- Students apply their knowledge of various forage species to evaluate hay based on physical properties, identify species common to pastures and complete a quiz that tests team members’ knowledge of different aspects of forage production and evaluation.
Advanced Prep/Required to Bring: Nothing
6. Biotechnology- Using only the supplied materials, each team will perform a DNA extraction from a plant tissue sample. Teams will be evaluated on documentation of their procedure, the quantity of DNA isolated, and post lab questions.
Advanced Prep/Required to Bring: expected competencies include laboratory safety, liquid handling, balance measurement and calibration, and record keeping. Students should also be familiar with the concept of DNA and basic cellular biology.
7. Soil Judging- Students will be given multiple soil samples and asked to correctly identify color, texture class, percent clay, and percent sand. Students will be evaluated on the accuracy of their evaluation of the soil samples.
Advanced Prep/Required to Bring: Nothing
8. Drones- Team members will fly a drone through an obstacle course as quickly as possible. The winner will be the team to complete the course with the quickest average time.
Advanced Prep/Required to Bring: Nothing
9. Livestock- Students will carefully analyze 2 classes of animals and compare them to a standard that is commonly accepted as ideal. Additionally, as a team they will answer a series of questions about the animals they have evaluated. Winner is determined by correct placement of animals and number of correct answers to the question set.
Advanced Prep/Required to Bring: Nothing
10. Livestock management- 1. This contest will consist of two portions:
- A) General Livestock Knowledge Exam
This section will cover basic knowledge of cattle, sheep, swine, dairy cattle, and meat goats. Areas covered will be reproduction, feeding & nutrition, handling, meat science, identification, anatomy, evaluation, performance data, genetics, marketing, basic veterinarian practices, etc.
- B) Livestock Management Identification
This section will include the identification of feedstuffs, breeds of livestock, livestock handling equipment & facilities, etc.
Advanced Prep/Required to Bring: Nothing
11. Travel Efficiency- Provided with a set of destinations, school requirements, and travel information, students will work to find the most efficient field trip itinerary available. Students will be evaluated on the accuracy of their figures as well as the efficiency of their plan.
Advanced Prep/Required to Bring: teams will have questions to review prior to the day of competition. Questions will be emailed to the instructor once registration has closed.
12. Whatever floats your boat: Using supplied materials, teams must construct a floating device capable of supporting a load based on event criteria. Teams will be graded on documentation and oral presentation along with the effectiveness of the product and its design.
Advanced Prep/Required to Bring: nothing
13. Balancing Act - Using materials provided, teams will design a structure to support a specified object over a specified obstacle.
Advanced Prep/Required to bring: nothing
14. Balloon-Powered Car - using materials provided, design and build the most efficient vehicle and propulsion system.
Advanced Prep/Required to bring: nothing
15. Bridge Construction - using the materials provided, teams will design a bridge over a specified span to support as much weight as possible.
Advanced Prep/Required to bring: nothing
16. Coding Challenge - Teams will write a console application in Visual Studio, in Visual Basic, C++, or Python, that interacts the user to choose from a set of geometric shapes and sized, and then print that geometry to the screen. The team that implements to most of the specified shapes, or the first team to implement all of them, wins.
Advanced Prep/Required to bring: nothing
17. Engineering Nightmare - Teams will “reverse engineer” a machined part. Given a part, teams with measure and sketch, then implement in Inventor or Fusion 360.
Advanced Prep/Required to bring: nothing
18. Battery Design - Using pennies, nickels, salt, and vinegar, teams will design and build batteries, and evaluate the results of battery design alternatives.
Advanced Prep/Required to bring: nothing
19. Rocket Stages - Teams will design and build a two-stage balloon rocket, using only the materials provided, to achieve the greatest distance traveled by the two stages combined.
Advanced Prep/Required to bring: nothing
20. Power Tool Drag Race - Teams will design and build a vehicle powered by a handheld power tool. The power tool vehicle will then run down the track as in an attempt to achieve the fastest time. Three race times will be recorded, and the fastest time will determine the winner.
This vehicle must be designed and constructed in advance and brought to the competition! All relevant rules will be provided to all enrolled teams in advance.
21. Robo Challenge - Teams will have 1 hour to program a 6-axis industrial robot (FANUC or MOTOMAN) to complete a task.
Advanced Prep/Required to bring: nothing
22. Short Circuit - Teams will be required to wire electrical circuits and troubleshoot circuit faults using diagnostic tools. The team that builds and troubleshoots the most circuits accurately and in the shortest time will be declared the winner.
Advanced Prep/Required to bring: nothing
23. Quiz Bowl
Teams of four students from each school compete against each other in a contest that features questions from the areas of engineering, agriculture, and general knowledge. The first round is double elimination in the morning. The final rounds are single elimination after lunch. The winner of the Quiz Bowl wins the COB and COG traveling trophy.
Advanced Prep/Required to Bring: nothing
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