Challenge X Year 1
Outreach Team Update #2
October 20, 2005
During the last few months, the TU ChallengeX Team has continued to work diligently on our outreach events. On January 26, 2005, Dr. Henshaw spoke at Jenks East Elementary School to two classes of 23 children each.
(Check out the thank you notes!)
Then, on January 29, 2005, Dorian Marx, Chris Flory, Jana Ahrens, Matt Roberds and Dr. Christi Patton met with 9 high school Girl Scouts during a TU Girl Scout Badge Day. The girls received the Car Sense badge; the car team talked to them about alternative fuels, taught them how to check fluids and change tires and the oil in a car, and helped the girls make puzzles as the outreach project to be used in later ChallengeX outreach activities.
On February 12, 2005, ChallengeX participated in the spring Brownie Day where the Challenge X Team spent 20 minutes talking to 135 second and third grade Girl Scouts (divided into groups of 25) about alternative fuels and distributed puzzles and activities provided by GM and by the Girl Scouts who participated in the Girl Scout Badge Day.
During E-Week, the ChallengeX team had an opportunity to talk about the program with 370 middle school children from the Tulsa area for fifteen minute intervals between 8:45am and 4:00pm.
ChallengeX was also publicized with an article updating the team's progress in the TU Vision News (Fall 2004) that was sent to all College of Engineering and Natural Sciences alumni.
During the e-week Rube Goldberg Competition, team member Dorian Marx cleverly set up his device in front of a Challenge X poster. The city newspaper, the Tulsa World, ran this picture on Saturday, February 26, 2005!