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Black Box Competition

Description/Rules:
There are two categories in the Black Box Competition, the analog category and the digital contest.

Students competing in the analog category are given an analog circuit enclosed in a “black box� and are asked to draw the electrical schematic of the circuit inside. The box contains only four terminals that the teams use to make electrical measurements that help them unravel the mystery of what is inside.

In the digital contest, students are given a programmable logic device with a pre-programmed circuit. They observe the behavior of the circuit and then try to draw a schematic for the “mystery� design