The Great Egg Race

With limited time and limited resources, teams from the EASTMAN DENTAL HOSPITAL SOUTHERN ELECTRICITY and the HERTFORDSHIRE SCIENCE TEACHING ASSOCIATION are challenged to design and construct and demonstrate their answer to Caxton.

Given just three hours, could you design and construct a man-powered, man-carrying vehicle, using only the contents of your kitchen? That's the problem teams from The National Institute of Agricultural Engineering, GKN and Rolls-Royce and Associates are challenged to solve.

This week teams from Atkins R&D, Brush Electrical Machines and the South West Wales School of Radiography are castaways on a desert island. Quite fortuitously, a crate of old 78 records has been washed up on the beach, but unfortunately no gramophone. So their problem is how to make music.

Accuracy and precision are the key to this week's problem. Given only a 6mm ball-bearing for reference, teams from KENWOOD ENGINEERING, MARCONI RADAR SYSTEMS and WARWICK RESEARCH UNIT FOR THE BLIND are challenged to construct a variety of measuring devices.

Teams from the ROYAL NAVY, N. E. I. PARSONS and the SHIRLEY INSTITUTE are required to put their best foot forward to stay above water to solve today's problem.

'A Portrait for Posterity' is the problem presented to the teams from Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Britannia Airways and Shand Civil Engineering. No camera, no film and no darkroom - produce in only three-and-a-half hours a photograph of all three team members.

Throwing hoops over pegs is difficult enough, but could you design, build and operate an automatic hoopla machine? That is the problem facing teams from KONTRON ELECTROLAB, LIFE SCIENCE RESEARCH and ICL..

Teams from ALFRED BADER LTD , CRANFIELD PRODUCT ENGINEERING CENTRE and one of the MINISTRY OF DEFENCE establishments are given just three-and-a-half hours to unravel tonight's problem and pres

Teams from NATIONAL NUCLEAR CORPORATION, PLESSEY TELECOMMS and the HANDICAPPED PERSONS' RESEARCH UNIT have just three and a half hours and some very odd bits and pieces to bring their machines to the starting line.