Junkyard Derby 2011 Videos

Thanks to recent Jacobs School alumnus Wiseley Wu for sending the link to the Junkyard Derby 2011 YouTube playlist.

Be sure to check out the time lapse of the build process (second video...first is the playlist w/ all the videos).

Junkyard Derby Prep

Below is an email that gives an inside look at Junkyard Derby, one of the great Jacobs School of Engineering annual events.

If you've never participated in the Junkyard Derby before, I can assure you that 15 seconds is a VERY long time, especially when other teams get all the best junk you wanted.

Dear Derby Junkies,

If you have done so already, thank you for registering for the 2011 Junkyard Derby. If you haven't done so yet, go do it now! Don't miss the biggest and funnest engineering event of the year. 

As a friendly reminder, all payments and registrations are due May 6th.

Junk Collections:

Do you want a head start at grabbing junk? 2 easy steps:

1. Attend 3 out of the 4 Saturday Junk Collections. The dates for the Junk Collections coming up are April 30th, May 7th, and May 14th, 2PM-5PM in Regents Parking Lot P705. You must help out at the Junk Collection for at least an hour each in order to be counted toward the head start. Make sure you sign in and out for your team.
2. A 15-second head start in grabbing junk, and DECaF points if you sign in for your org.

If you've never participated in the Junkyard Derby before, I can assure you that 15 seconds is a VERY long time, especially when other teams get all the best junk you wanted. 

Also, it is very important for as many teams as possible to attend these junk collections. The junk we collect in the upcoming weekends is all the junk YOU guys will get to use at the Derby. So the more people that go collect junk, the more and "better quality" junk you will get for your cars. 

How to build a Derby car:

Never participated in Junkyard Derby before? Worried about the seemingly insurmountable task of using power tools for some hands-on engineering? TESC has got you covered.

Come to the TESC GBM on May 4th at 7:30 PM in EBU2-584 (room subject to change).

Hope to see you at the Junk Collection tomorrow!

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Junkyard Derby 2010 Videos Embedded Below

Robot Unicorn Attacks Junkyard Derby 2010


Mad Max wins Junkard Derby 2010


Geisel Library Rolls into Junkyard Derby 2010


Junkyard Derby: Freshman, Super Seniors and a Dragon Belly

Junkyard Derby Videos in the News!

I put four Junkyard Derby 2010 videos on YouTube. The Mad Max video is running on the San Diego Union Tribune science blog Science Quest.

I'll embed all four videos below in a bit, but the links are here:

Mad Max wins Junkard Derby 2010
http://www.youtube.com/jacobsschoolnews#p/u/1/r8XARZs0aOc

Robot Unicorn Attacks Junkyard Derby 2010
http://www.youtube.com/jacobsschoolnews#p/u/0/FzGzVTRoJ34

Geisel Library Rolls into Junkyard DErby 2010
http://www.youtube.com/jacobsschoolnews#p/u/2/yfbOME9MS2s

Junkyard Derby: Freshman, Super Seniors and a Dragon Belly
http://www.youtube.com/jacobsschoolnews#p/u/3/GLhP2R1GCbk

Junkyard Derby 2010

Junkyard Derby 2010..fun as ever! I'm capturing the video now...stay tuned!

Where did the week go? / Junkyard Derby is Friday May 14!!!

How is it already Thursday afternoon?

Well, I was out of the office on Monday and Tuesday for jury duty. I ran into an electrical engineering professor who was also called in for jury duty that day...small world.

Jacobs School undergrads were on TV last night and this morning (San Diego NBC station)...their "mad dash for trash"...which is the exciting start to Junkyard Derby took place on Wednesday night.

NBC also embedded our Junkyard Derby video from 2009...also embedded below.

Junkyard Derby is Next Week! (400th blog post)

Junkyard Derby is a most worthy subject for my 400th post on this blog about all things Jacobs School.

The best way to get a taste of Junkyard Derby is to see it for yourself. You'll have to wait till next Friday, but in the meantime, there are a couple of options.

First option: Watch the video from last year's Junkyard Derby.



Second option: Check out the "Mad Dash for Trash" next Wednesday evening. That's the official beginning of Junkyard Derby. At the sound of the whistle, all the teams rush into a mountain of scavenged junk (abandoned furniture and old bikes are always popular). They grab the raw materials (aka Junk) that they will fashion into lean, mean, racing machines in the following 36 hours.

If I remember right, last year they even had folks out there with welding tools to help the teams transform junk into race cars.

Learn all about Junkyard Derby at the official TESC site:
http://tesc.ucsd.edu/derby/