The Domino Effect

We all love to watch a domino rally – where dominoes topple over creating a 'domino effect'.

In The Domino Effect team challenge, teams design and build a domino rally while completing an array of specific challenges.  If successful they can remove items from their rally to make it faster and simpler. Teams can choose to not complete any challenges and use every item in their box. Once complete, teams observe each other’s rally’s. 

The winning team is the team with the fastest working Domino Rally that has satisfied all the criteria. There is also an opportunity to give another award for the most creative Domino Rally

With the challenge to create the fastest domino rally collective decision is important. Will they complete all the challenges to reduce the amount of parts they must use, or will they concentrate on planning and construction? 

Teams learn the importance of prototyping and patience in testing to ensure the final project is successful. The importance of planning and decision making is highlighted in the success of the final result.