NFPA Fluid Power Challenge

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NFPA Fluid Power Challenge

• Workshop Day April 18, 2008
• Challenge Day May 9, 2008
• The Challenge is meant to complement the fluids
  section in many science and technology curricula
  and gives students the hands-on experience of
  designing, building and demonstrating a
  fluid-power based mechanism to solve an assigned
  problem.
• Bryan Kind - Kettle Moraine High School
  Technology and Engineering Instructor

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Workshop DayApril 18, 2008Kettle Moraine High
School

• The Workshop Day brought the 8th grade teams
  together to learn about fluid power and develop
  the skills needed for the competition. Steve
  Rogers, the facilitator for the Canadian Fluid
  Power Challenge, worked with the teams during the
  workshop.
• This is so cool!
• Kettle Moraine Middle School student

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The Teams
Hmong American Peace Academy (HAPA Heroes) Sheng
Yang, Koyoua Vang, Teacher Scott Jex, Dan Vue and
Peter Xiong (left to right)
Luxemburg-Casco Middle School Loren Le Fevre,
Amber Clark, Teacher Joe Kempke, Emily Brunette
and Ryvkah Andersen (left to right)
Team 4 Kettle Moraine Middle School Reggie
Peters, Maddie Churches, Dylan Homnth and Sarah
Smith (no picture available)
Kettle Moraine Middle School Corinne Guillama,
Ryan Nihoris, Jamie Quinn, Cole Harris and
Teacher Walter Dombrowski (left to right)
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Steve Rogers welcomes the teams to the Workshop
Day
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After instructions from Steve, the teams get to
work on building a pneumatic lifter.
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Hmong American Peace Academy Team (HAPA Heroes)
build their pneumatic lifter
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Luxemburg-Casco Middle Schoolbuild their
pneumatic lifter
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Construction of the pneumatic lifter
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Steve Rogers demonstrates the pneumatic lifter
and offers advice on the challenge
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The Challenge

• SCENARIO
• You are a team of highly trained experts in the
  field of Explosive
• Materials Handling.
• Your firm has been commissioned to design a
  controlled hydraulic-
• powered device that will safely move containers
  of highly explosive
• material between two storage areas that lie
  across a deadly canyon.
• THE CHALLENGE
• The assignment for your team is to design and
  build a model that picks
• up containers from one storage area (1), rotates
  to a position facing a
• second storage area (2), and then deposits the
  containers into the
• second area. Dropped containers cant be
  recovered. Your task will be
• to transport as many containers as possible
  between the two storage
• areas in time frame of three (3) minutes.

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Starting to design a fluid power mechanism for
the challenge
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Tom Wanke, professor at Milwaukee School of
Engineering, talks to the group about careers,
research, college internships and the future of
fluid power.
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The teams will now take their kits, including
tools and supplies, back to school to work on the
challenge scenario and design, build and test a
prototype. They will then refine and redesign
their prototype and use the updated design to
build their fluid power mechanism during the
Challenge Day, May 9th.

• The Fluid Power Challenge held at Kettle
  Moraine High School was a great experience. All
  of my students were fired up to get working on
  the Fluid Powered Arm.
• Joe Kempke Teacher at Luxemburg-Casco
  Middle School

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Challenge DayMay 9, 2008Kettle Moraine High
School
The NFPA Fluid Power Challenge will ask students
to design and build fluid-power mechanisms that
will pick-up a container from one platform,
rotate to face a different platform and then
deposit the container onto that second platform.
The number of pick-and-place cycles a schools
machine completes in the demonstration time will
be used to calculate the final evaluation.
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The Judges

• Tom Wanke Milwaukee School of Engineering
  (Head Judge)
• Steve Gluck Sauer-Danfoss Inc.
• Ed Howe Enfield Technologies
• Dwight Stephenson HUSCO International, Inc.
• The judges talked with students about their
  designs, decisions, teamwork and reviewed
  their portfolios.

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Morning of the Challenge Day
Students build their fluid power mechanism and
talk with judges. Teachers toured HUSCO
International, Inc.Dwight Stephenson HUSCO
International, Inc. talks with the students from
Hmong American Peace Academy (HAPA Heroes).
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Hmong American Peace Academy(HAPA Heroes)
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Tom Wanke, Milwaukee School of Engineering, talks
with students from Luxemburg-Casco Middle School.
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Luxemburg-Casco Middle School
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Steve Gluck, Sauer-Danfoss Inc., talks with
students from Kettle Moraine Middle School.
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Kettle Moraine Middle School
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Judges Steve Gluck, Sauer-Danfoss Inc., and Ed
Howe, Enfield Technologies, confer on a portfolio.
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More building no time even for lunch!
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Kettle Moraine Middle School
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Luxemburg-Casco Middle School
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Hmong American Peace Academy (HAPA Heroes)
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After lunch TestingLuxemburg-Casco Middle
School
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The 3 Minute ChallengeLuxemburg-Casco Middle
School
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Luxemburg-Casco Middle School
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The 3 Minute ChallengeHmong American Peace
Academy(HAPA Heroes)
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Hmong American Peace Academy (HAPA Heroes)
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The 3 Minute ChallengeKettle Moraine Middle
School
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Kettle Moraine Middle School
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The Winnermoving 17 canisters in 3 minutes
Luxemburg-Casco Middle School
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1st PlaceLuxemburg-Casco Middle School
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2nd PlaceKettle Moraine Middle School
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3rd PlaceHmong American Peace Academy (HAPA
Heroes)
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Congratulations to each team!Each team managed
to move at least one canister. Team members also
received Certificates of Achievement.
Bestest challenge ever! Neat! Fun! This
is so cool! Student quotes
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Thank you to the sponsors

• Air Logic
• Alro Steel Corporation
• Command Controls Corp.           
• Deltrol Fluid Products
• Enfield Technologies                 
• HUSCO International, Inc.
• OEM Off-Highway                     
• The Oilgear Co.
•  Sauer-Danfoss Inc.

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Thank you also to

• Bryan Kind - Kettle Moraine High School
  Technology and Engineering Instructor
• And his studentsKM Robotics, Team 2077 and Team
  1988

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Mark your calendar
The next NFPA Fluid Power Challenge will be held
at the Milwaukee School of Engineering Dates Wor
kshop Day November 14, 2008 Challenge Day
December 12, 2008 Contact Tammy Molter at
414-778-3349 or tmolter_at_nfpa.com for more
information.