13th February | 09:00-15:00 Hrs | Barn

14th February | 10:00-16:00 Hrs | Barn

“The most brilliant solution is often the simplest”

NO!! In Contraptions, simplicity is the last thing that should come to your head. What is needed is a crazy mind capable of dreaming up the most complex of answers to the simplest of tasks. Anyone can make a phone call using their fingers, but can you make one using a Hot Wheel s Racer? Tom and Jerry cartoons are recommended viewing for all paticipants. Finally, here’s a sample question to get you thinking. How would you touch your nose using your finger? This Olympics of Complexity is designed to pull students away from conventional problem-solving and push them into the endless chaos of imagination and intuitive thought. Instead of just "solving" the problem, teams have to make the solution as complicated and as convoluted as possible. So go ahead, break the rules, defy all logic, and make life tougher!

Registrations open now.

Problem Statement:

To turn the page of a book. (The standard book to be used will be mentioned prior to 30 days of the event ).

Bonus Step: To turn back the page which was just turned.

• Maximum number of participants should not exceed Six.
• The entire contraption should be within a 3meter *3 meter box.
• Once the first step has been initiated, intervention of any sort in the intermediate steps would lead to deduction in points.
• Maximum of three trials would be allowed for each team.
• Teams may use commercially available machines as individual parts of your contraption.
• The total time taken for task should not exceed 15 minutes.
• 220 volts AC supply would be provided at the event venue.
• Any questionable items must be given prior consent by the event manager.If you have any special requirements inform us well in advance. It will be taken care of. Extension chords, scissors, tape etc. will be provided.
• Judges decision will be final and binding to all.

• No of steps in the contraption
• No of energy conversions
• Types of energy conversions
• Originality of the ideas and innovativeness
• Robustness of the contraption
• No of trials and forced human interventions used(will lead to deduction of points
• Complexity of the overall contraption.