A late (but very deserving) congratulations to a member of our agricultural department, Kaesey Glaess. The Iowa State University Fountain Wars team brought home 1st place in the recent American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)andnbsp;Fountain Wars Student Design Competition.

Fountain Wars is a hands-on, real-time design competition where students design and model their entry on-site at the Annual International Meeting (AIM), and build and test their actual entry under time pressure during the competition at the AIM.

Fountain Wars requires a modest design document and limited expenditures. As such, it is primarily targeted at student clubs or participants in sophomore/junior-level class design projects. Teams will arrive at the competition with a design for their fountain, along with the necessary PVC pipe, couplers, fittings, valves, nozzles, and pumps to assemble their design. After making a brief, marketing-style promotion, they will construct their system during a 120-minute construction period.

Awards are based on scores of the written report, oral presentation, construction, technical tasks and aesthetic display segments of the event.

This years tasks were throwing a frisbee with the frisbee starting on the water surface, and balancing a ball with weight being added to one end of the balancing beam. In addition, Iowa State’s fountain included proximity sensors that shot off water during the aesthetic display.

Read more:andnbsp;https://asabe.org/…/Fountain-Wars-Student-Design-Competition