Famous Engineers & Engineering Feats
This 19th-century engineering feat connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and significantly shortened global shipping routes.
What is the Panama Canal?
In The Martian, Mark Watney survives by engineering this vegetable on Mars.
What are potatoes?
This is where Checkpoint 2 was held.
What is Macquarie Group?
Longest river in the world
The River Nile
They created the first successful airplane.
Who are the Wright brothers?
This 1990s sitcom character was a paleontologist and often joked about science and fossils.
Who is Ross Geller?
This is what we did during Checkpoint 1.
What are Mock Interviews?
This body of water surrounding New York City is 507 kilometers long
What is the Hudson River?
She contributed critical calculations to early space missions and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
Tony Stark was a graduate of this real-world university.
What is MIT?
This company was the host of the Opening Ceremony.
What is Transport NSW?
Used in ancient times by the poet Tibullus, "The Eternal City" is a nickname given to what European capital?
What is Rome?
This building is currently the tallest in the world.
What is the Burj Khalifa?
In “Back to the Future,” this scientist builds a time machine out of a DeLorean.
Who is Doc?
This is what the design challenge in Checkpoint 2 was based on.
What is urban waste?
This country shares the longest land border with France
What is Brazil?
Wrote what is widely recognized as the first computer algorithm
Who is Ada Lovelace?
This piece of technology from Back to the Future violates the laws of thermodynamics (and common sense).
What is the flux capacitor?
One of the speakers that presented today
Who is Dimi Panagopoulos?
OR
Who is Amaya Peiris?
The number of countries that are landlocked
What is 44?