Shalheveth Freier Physics Tournament

Worldwide Winner
The TanenbaumCHAT Joint team takes first prize

Every year, the Weizmann Institute is the scene for the greatest safecracking feats known to high school students. High schools form teams and take on the challenge: Build a safe that only your team can open, and then try to open the safes of all the other teams. Each team is given a box and must use simple materials to build a safe that operates on the principles of physics, able to be opened in less than 5 minutes, but that will keep opponents stumped for at least 10 minutes. Entries are scored by a panel of referees, not every safe they manage to crack. The two-day showdown takes place on the Weizmann campus in Rehovot, Israel on March 16-17, 2010.

Read the Jewish Tribune article: Competition gives ‘break and enter’ a whole new meaning.