This year's edition of the WUST Challenge was organised by students from the TK Games research club. They prepared "Energy in the Game" workshops for participants from high schools. The participating students played a board game developed by our research club, and their task was to „make their own energy".

The workshop participants were divided into two teams and fought in an original game developed by students of our TK Games research club. Players were first introduced to the game and then had to generate "energy" themselves. The game developed by TK Games was included in the thematic block devoted to energy.

Classes could register for one of three thematic blocks that corresponded to the titles of WUST popular science films of the „Phenomena” series, i.e. Light, Water and Energy. The educational game started with a lecture, individual for each thematic block. The teams could win their first points already at that stage. Then the classes were divided into two groups. The first group went to the campus to solve design tasks, and the second group had additional workshops.

The workshops, presentations and the game were attended by high school students from Wrocław, Oleśnica, Oława, Zgorzelec, Leszno and Lubin.– Each thematic block consisted of five design workshops referring to the main topic – says Natalia Michalska from the Information and Promotion Department at WUST. – For example, for teams starting in the Light block, we had a workshop on fibre lasers or light in ophthalmology. For the Water block, we prepared chemical water purification and the phenomenon of Brownian motion, and for the Energy block – tasks on vehicle aerodynamics and independent energy generation.

Those participants who performed additional tasks in the campus were faced with such challenges as building an aerofoil, a game of laser chess or a rowing sprint.  – Those who wanted to learn more about the Phenomena series could also take part in special screenings of all three parts of our film – adds Natalia Michalska.

The following teams did best with all of the tasks:

The Light block

1st place: class 1E from High School No 10 in Wrocław (voucher to VirtualCity and WUST gadgets),
2nd place: class 2E from High School No 10 in Wrocław (WUST gadgets),
3rd place: class 3E from High School No 10 in Wrocław (WUST gadgets).

The Water Block

1st place: class 2B from High School No 1 in Oława (voucher to Aquapark in Wrocław and WUST gadgets),
2nd place: class 3D from High School No 8 in Wrocław (WUST gadgets),
3rd place: class 2D from High School No 2 in Wrocław (WUST gadgets).

The Energy Block

1st place: class 2A from High School No 1 in Oleśnica (voucher to Sapori Italiani pizza house and WUST gadgets),
2nd place: class 1B from High School No 1 in Oława (WUST gadgets),
3rd place: class 2D from High School No 10 in Wrocław (WUST gadgets).

The event was organised by employees and students from various WUST faculties, as well as by the Department of Foreign Languages and the Department of Physical Education and Sports.