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The article analyzes the experience of holding the Pangram International Student Competition on Font and Calligraphy in the context of the phenomenon of festivals and competitions that popularize the art of type in the cultural space of Ukraine and the world. The purpose of the article is a retrospective review of the five year existence of the competition, its statistical analysis, results and prospects. This study was carried out in the framework of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of KSADA. Its idea is related to the determination of one of the directions of the Academy’s development in the future. The field of international creative competitions is diverse and constantly evolving. The most famous professional type design competitions are Morisawa Type Design Competition, TDC Typeface Design Competition, GRANSHAN Type Design Competition, where designers present their latest developments in type design. The article dwells on the problem of the implementation of creative ideas of art university students through participation in competitions, creative actions, festivals. It was noted that the practice of announcing such competitions is an example of encouraging young people to be creative, and it is an opportunity to find talented labor potential for organizations. The author examines the features of the main type festivals held in Ukraine in different years, namely: Cyrillic Holiday, Ruthenia, Space of Letters. The state of the research of the problem is analyzed. The author emphasizes that the phenomenon of creative actions, festivals and competitions is insufficiently studied in scientific terms. Although they are widely highlighted by local and regional Internet media as significant events, which demonstrates the interest of society. Special attention is payed to the background, development and transformation of the Pangram competition. The main idea of the competition is to give the opportunity to demonstrate the font ideas of students of art higher education institutions from different countries. The competition also promotes the exchange of experience of font schools in Ukraine and other countries, popularizes the role of calligraphy, type and typography disciplines in higher education institutions. The author highlights such conditions and mechanisms of the competition as topics, nominations and categories, event format, the jury and evaluation criteria, partners, and awards. It was noted that the selected remote format proved to be successful in the global pandemic. At the present stage of the development of the art of font and calligraphy in general and in Ukraine in particular, the student competition is a progressive phenomenon of bringing teaching methods beyond the walls of higher education institutions. The present study is important for understanding the trends in modern type design and calligraphy in terms of the formation of Ukrainian identity and the design culture in general.

The paper attempts to comprehend the place and role of moot courts in modern legal education. To achieve this goal, the concept and types of moot courts are considered. The author analyses the order of their organization and conduct as a business game in the course of studying an academic discipline (module) and as a competition (competition) among students of higher educational institutions. The main stages of preparing the team for participation in the modeling process are characterized. The author argues an opinion that there are significant advantages of using moot courts in legal education, and supports it with, apart from other things, the results of the author’s survey of students of Kutafin Moscow State University (MSAL) having taken part in different moot court competitions. The author also identifies some difficulties in the preparation of teams. The author concludes that moot courts have an important role in the training of highly qualified specialists to make them ready to solve complex legal issues and possess all the knowledge and skills necessary for this.

Chassis jig is needed to ensure that the welded chassis components does not warp or deform during welding process. Through concept screening and concept scoring, multiple design of chassis jigs is narrowed down to next development process. This study aims to design a chassis jig for the fabrication of student car competition chassis. The desired result of this design process is chassis jig with the ability to manufacture a wide variety of student competition car chassis.

In line with the expectations of the government, parents and the public on the quality of Indonesian education both academic and non-academic, namely the character of students, it is necessary to creativity and innovation of teachers in teaching and learning activities in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Geography subjects are subjects of interest that are mandatory and important for ips majors, so it should be students majoring in IPS master the lessons that are characteristic of the department, while some students say the geography of boring material let alone learning in the era of Covid-19 protesters where teachers do not come face to face with students. These things that cause low learning outcomes because boredom has an impact on the lack of interest and yearly curiosity in the material delivered by the teacher. The teacher's strategy in addressing the problem is to make use of quizizz-assisted geography learning media. The purpose of writing this paper is to describe the use of geography learning media assisted by quizizz as a learning strategy for the Covid-19 protesters in students of Class XII IPS 5 Semester 2 SMA N 3 Purwokerto Year 2020/2021. The use of geography-assisted learning media quizizz can improve the learning outcomes and the spirit of student competition on remote sensing materials. Evalution results after learning is the percentage of completion of learners 89.7 % and has exceeded 75% of the number of learners so that the learning is declared effective.

[EN] The need to cultivate student competences to improve sustainability in agrifood systems is indisputable. This paper shows the example of an online student competition course in Sustainable Food for Master students based on action-learning principles and the five core competences of Observation, Participation, Dialogue, Visioning, and Reflection. The course ran three times from 2019-2022 and 85 students assessed themselves in these five competences by responding to 17 rating statements. Analyses revealed significant improvement in all competences except Participation after the course. Yet since Participation was highest rated before the course, rating of this competence was not less than other competences at the end. Practicing these five core competences and integrating competency self-assessments into educational activities can contribute to a paradigm shift in education that fosters the cultivation of competences for sustainability and that may be applicable to other courses., The authors acknowledge the NextFood project and the funding received from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme Grant Agreement No. 771738.

With 15 years of experience, the jurors of a Polish student competition entitled Footpaths of Physics present their views on the copycat approach manifested by the contestants. The cases discussed are analysed in order to discover the reasons and results of such an attitude – connected to the competition itself, as well as to more general psychological and societal phenomena. The paper may be treated as a set of clues for people engaged in judging the work of students – such as teachers – but also for anyone working with exceptionally gifted or ambitious students.

This paper is introducing a “Magyarok a Marson” robot, which is developed at the Institute of Automation and Infocommunication in University of Miskolc. The controller was built for “Magyarok a Marson” student competition. Our goal was to create a controller, which looks like a magic wand and it is able to control remotely a spherical robot. It was the expectation of the competition. My main task was the hardware design of the remote controller. This paper presents the requirements of the competition, the development of the PCB panel and the controller itself.

In this article, we use an entry to an international architectural student competition on future care to explore how social norms about older bodies may be challenged by designs that are sensitive to the spatial contexts within which we age. The power of the My Home design by Witham and Wilkins derives from its hand-drawn aesthetic and thus we consider the architects’ insistence on drawing as a challenge to the clear and unambiguous image-making typically associated with digitally aided architectural designs. The hand-drawn images of My Home prompt a focus on care as enacted through the relations between material environments and things, and the atmospheric qualities these relations evoke. Throughout our analysis, we argue for greater attention to the ways in which embodied practices, everyday affects and materialities can be represented within architectural design, and the role of hand drawing as a creative methodology in this process.

This work presents a preliminary design study of a radio-controlled micro aircraft. The aircraft is designed with the aim to compete in the SAE Aero Design Student Competition. Different designs were performed by different groups of students following the rules given in the SAE 2017 competition document. Such rules include the criteria of having the entire aircraft fit in a specific dimensional cylindrical box in unassembled condition, achieving the highest flight score and carrying the highest possible payload with minimum airframe weight, etc. In this scope, the concept generations of multiple designs for the micro aircraft with appropriate dimensions were done. In addition, basic paper prototypes of the designs which were helpful to visualize the aircraft were constructed. 3D CAD models of designs and 2D drawings for dimensional description were prepared. No prototypes were manufactured due to the Covid-19 situation.

The buildings in which we teach management and decision analysis are ideal labs for advancing sustainability in management education, experiential learning, and integrated performance measurement. Utilizing building-based learning and design competition, student teams can learn about aspects of sustainability while proposing investments into the spaces we spend over 90% of our time inside of buildings. Buildings on university campuses provide an opportunity to design and deliver hands-on assignments showing how the actions taken on an existing building can improve the overall health and performance of that building and its owners and occupants. Contributions of this study include a primer on how to develop and deliver building-based learning and demonstrating ways in which to integrate a social cost of carbon in investments with a proven approach to assess and measure the return on integration of financial, environmental, and human health and productivity in a return on integration, integrated rate of return, and integrated future value. Insights and the lessons learned provide linkages to learning outcomes and assessment so that learning objectives are aligned with and advance sustainability in management education and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals with outcomes generalizable to any building and business.

Presents highlights from the Highlights from the 2020 IEEE Signal Processing Cup student competition.

Summary The use of drilling automation is accelerating, mostly in the area of rate of penetration (ROP) enhancement. Autonomous directional drilling is now a high focus area for automating drilling operations. The potential impact is immense because 93% of the active rigs in the US are drilling directional or horizontal wells. The 2018–2019 Drilling Systems Automation Technical Section (DSATS)-led international Drillbotics® Student Competition includes automated directional drilling. In this paper, we discuss the detailed design of the winning team. We present the surface equipment, downhole tools, data and control systems, and lessons learned. SPE DSATS organizes the annual Drillbotics competition for university teams to design and develop laboratory-scale drilling rigs. The competition requires each team to create unique downhole sensors to allow automated navigation to drill a directional hole. Student teams have developed new rig configurations to enable several steering methods that include a rotary steering system and small-scale downhole motors with a bent-sub. The most significant challenge was creating a functional downhole motor to fit within a 1.25-in. (3.18 cm) diameter wellbore. Besides technical issues, teams must demonstrate what they have learned about bit-rock interaction and the physics of steering. In addition, they must deal with budgets and funding, procurement and delivery delays, and overall project management. This required an integrated multidisciplinary approach and a major redesign of the rig components. The University of Oklahoma (OU) team made significant changes to its existing rig to drill directional holes. The design change was introduced to optimize the performance of the bottomhole assembly (BHA) and allow directional drilling. The criteria for selecting the BHA was hole size, BHA dynamics, a favorable condition for downhole sensors, precise control of drilling parameters, rig mobility, safety, time constraints, and economic practicality. The result is an autonomous drilling rig that drills a deviated hole toward a defined target through a 2 × 2 × 1-ft (60.96 × 60.96 × 30.48 cm) sandstone block (i.e., rock sample) without human intervention. The rig currently uses a combination of discrete and dynamic modeling from experimentally determined control parameters and closed-loop feedback for well-trajectory control. The novelty of our winning design is in the use of a small-scale cable-driven downhole motor with a bent-sub and quick-connect-type swivel system. This is intended to replicate the action of a mud motor within the limits of the borehole diameter. In this paper, we present details of the rig components, their specifications, and the problems faced during the design, development, and testing. We demonstrate how a laboratory-scale rig can be used to study drilling dysfunctions and challenges. Building a downhole tool to withstand vibrations, water intrusion, magnetic interference, and electromagnetic noise are common difficulties faced by major equipment manufacturers.

We describe a novel student contest concept in which an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV or drone) must autonomously navigate a straight corridor using feedback from camera images. The objective of the contest is to promote engineering skills (related to sensing and control in particular) among students and young professionals, by means of an attractive robotics topic in an exciting competition format. The first edition of this contest was organized in Cluj-Napoca, Romania on October 19th 2019. Teams from industry and academia competed, with an overall positive experience. We outline the challenge and scoring rules, together with the technical solutions of the teams, and close with a summary of the results and points to improve for the next editions.

In 2019, the International Bamboo and Rattan Organisation (INBAR) launched the International Bamboo Construction Competition 2019 (IBCC 2019). IBCC 2019 is an international contest aimed at university students of architecture, civil engineering, landscape, and other construction-related courses. The objective of the competition is to invite students to explore the potential construction applications for both bamboo poles and engineered bamboo products. IBCC 2019 was sponsored by several important companies working in the development of innovative bamboo products for the construction and design industries. The competition was organized on three different stages: pre-selection and qualification; selection of the three projects to be realized; and realization and award of the best project. This chapter opens with a discussion on the nature of the competition and then summarizes the key steps of the IBCC 2019 from the ideation to the award ceremony. The key design goals are widely discussed together with a deep analysis of the potentiality of bamboo for the construction industry.

This study aimed to evaluate the effects of cumulative school soccer matches separated by 24-h or 48-h intervals on recovery status of U-19 players. Thirty-four school athletes (17.6 ± 1.1 years) who played an U-19 school soccer competition (composed of one group with four teams and another group with three teams, followed by semifinals and final) were examined before three matches, which lasted 70 min. Seventeen athletes had 24-h of rest interval between each match (GGG group), while 18 athletes had an interval of 48-h between the second and third matches (GG48hG group). Total Quality Recovery, countermovement jump, 10-m sprint, and maximum lumbar isometric strength were measured. The internal load of each match was calculated by the product of the session Rating of Perceived Exertion and match time. There was a 22% reduction in Total Quality Recovery (p< 0.001) and 12% in 10-m sprint performance (p< 0.001) before the third match in the GGG group, while the GG48hG group did not show changes for the same variables (p> 0.05). The countermovement jump decreased before the second match in both groups (GGG= 12% and GG48hG= 10%; p< 0.001), with no difference between groups (p> 0.05). In addition, both groups did not show changes in the isometric strength and in the internal load match over the games (p> 0.05). Despite not providing a complete muscle recovery, 48-h interval between the second and third matches seems to have minimized the effect of consecutive matches in muscle performance reduction. Este estudo teve como objetivo avaliar os efeitos de partidas consecutivas de futebol escolar com intervalos de 24 e 48 horas no estado de recuperação física de jogadores Sub-19. Foram avaliados 35 homens (17,6±1,1 anos) atletas escolares sub-19. Durante a competição, foram realizados três jogos de 70-min de duração. Dezessete atletas tiveram intervalo de 24h entre cada jogo (grupo GGG). Dezoito atletas tiveram intervalo de 48 h entre o 2º e o 3º jogo (grupo GG48hG). Antes de cada jogo foram medidas a Qualidade Total de Recuperação, altura do salto com contra movimento, velocidade no sprint de 10-m, e força máxima isométrica lombar máxima. A carga interna do jogo foi calculada pelo produto da percepção subjetiva do esforço da sessão e tempo de cada jogo. Houve uma redução de 22% na qualidade total de recuperação (p 0,05). O salto com contra movimento diminuiu antes da segunda partida em ambos os grupos (GGG = 12% e GG48hG = 10%; p 0,05). Em adição, ambos os grupos não apresentaram alterações na força isométrica e na carga interna ao longo dos jogos (p> 0,05). Apesar de não proporcionar uma completa recuperação muscular, 48 h de intervalo entre o segundo e o terceiro jogo parece ter minimizado o efeito de jogos consecutivos na redução do desempenho.

PROBLEM Voting affords citizens a direct say in the leaders and policies that affect their health. However, less than 20% of eligible U.S. citizens have been offered the chance to register to vote at a government-funded agency like a hospital or clinic that provides Medicaid or Medicare services. Medical students are well positioned to increase voting access due to their interactions with multiple actors in health care settings, including patients, visitors, colleagues, and others. APPROACH Vot-ER, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that aims to promote civic engagement in health care settings, launched the inaugural Healthy Democracy Campaign from July 20 to October 9, 2020. As part of this national, gamification-based competition, medical student captains were recruited to lead teams of health care trainees and professionals that helped eligible adults start the voter registration and/or mail-in ballot request processes prior to the November 2020 elections. Post competition, medical student captains were surveyed about their motivations for participating and skills and knowledge gained. OUTCOMES In total, 128 medical student captains at 80 medical schools in 31 states and the District of Columbia formed teams that helped 15,692 adults start the voter registration and/or mail-in ballot request processes. Eighty-two (64.1%) captains responded to the post competition survey, representing 56 (70.0%) of the participating schools. The top ranked motivation for participating in the campaign was the desire to address social and racial inequities (37, 45.1%). Respondents reported gaining skills and knowledge in several aspects of civic engagement, including community organizing (67, 81.7%) and voting rights (63, 76.8%). The majority of respondents planned to incorporate voter registration into their future practice (76, 92.7%). NEXT STEPS Future Healthy Democracy Campaigns will aim to continue closing the voting access gap and promote the long-term inclusion of hands-on civic engagement in medical education and practice.

Student performance prediction is one of the most important subjects for educational data mining. Generally, student performance prediction can be achieved by tracing the evolution of each student’s knowledge states via a series of learning activities. However, previous studies mainly focus on predicting the grade of students. To the best of our knowledge, there are no studies focus on student competition award prediction, which is vital for students’ development and learning process. In this paper, we aim to predict students’ programming competition awards by building machine learning models with basic features and competition-related features extracted from 107 students. Specifically, we employ two kinds of data-driven-based features, which are basic features and programming competition-related features. The basic features are the personal and grade information of students in programming courses. The programming competition-related features are the performance data of students in the programming competition training activities. The empirical results show that the random forest model can achieve the best performance among all models with an Accuracy of 0.89, an F-measure of 0.88, a Precision of 0.90, and a Recall of 0.85. Moreover, the empirical results also show that the competition-related features are more influential features for predicting the students’ competition awards, which should be paid attention to in the follow-up studies.