Four Event Leaders are needed to work this challenge. Their jobs are to help maintain integrity of throws and scoring.
Positions:
- 2 Score Keepers (one for each team) Score Keepers keep track of positive and negative points
- 2 Taggers (one for each team). Taggers place “Success Stickers” on Name tags. This identifies the “Distance Mark” thrown from, preventing points from being given more than once from a particular distance mark.
Points are earned for home teams by flying one’s glider through a designated hoop (hoop A or hoop B). The greater the distance, the more points earned. Each child builds a glider at the challenge once the 20 minute event has begun, using one sheet of standard white typing paper. Gliders must be folded into an aerodynamic design. Crumpled wads of paper do not qualify, nor shapes that are not in the “spirit” of an aerodynamic glider. NOTE: They may not start folding their glider until the competition has started.
Teams may only use materials provided at the event: 20 lb copy paper, paper clips, tape, staples, and scissors. They may adjust and make modifications to their glider throughout the competition. Points are gained for each new distance that the glider goes through the hoop.
At the event, Olympians may make as many gliders as they want, and practice as much as they want through Hoop C, but once they decide to tell the competition leader that they are ready, they may not build any more “new” gliders throughout the rest of the competition, although they may modify their “one” throughout. For every competitive throw of a team’s glider, they will “pay” ONE point. They may “stop throwing if they want to “hold” their points.
The competition lasts 20 minutes (this includes both building, and flying the craft).