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= Sand Castles =

Mission Statement
== Are you ready for a spirited competition on the beautiful beaches of California? Welcome to the Annual Sand Castle Days Competition. Every year during the Sand Castle Competition, there are teams whose castles are destroyed before they are finished, due to water and wind. You will be a part of a design team of experts who will design a barrier system to protect the sand castles from the natural forces of wind and water and the erosional destruction they could cause during the competition. The design team will include: a project manager, an architect, an engineer, and a designer. The barrier system protecting your sand castle must be made from any appropriate materials that are free and recyclable and can be brought from home. Mission Tasks ==

==Your team will need to make a design sketch __before__ building the actual and barrier system. The sketch must show how you plan to keep water and wind from destroying your castle during the competition. Your team will then build and test the prototype –redesigning and testing as necessary to meet the criteria.== ==Finally, your team must prepare a presentation for the Sand Castle Days Competition judges that includes photos of the different models that were built and tested, the reasoning used in choosing the barrier system you did, and why you believe it will work.==

== Your presentation is limited to 10 minutes. In that time, you are to demonstrate how your barrier system protects your castle. Be sure your presentation shares the appropriate and sufficient information and data to convince the judges that you understand the forces of wind and water and how to prevent erosion. Be enthusiastic so you can sway the representative to select your design. ==

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