The first place design is automatically entered in the national ASME competition. The contest involves sorting good widgets and bad widgets.
Widgets are domino-sized blocks of acrylic.
The device must be powered by dollar motors and one 1.5V battery per motor. At the contest, the students are given five minutes to assemble their device. The judge drops a mixture of five good and five bad widgets into the device which must sort them into two small boxes. The scoring is based on accurate sorting and time. Delta's winning team members were Emmy Alen, Robert Martel, Zach Putman, Bill Metz, and Lou Vassalo.