Elsevier, the information analytics company specialising in science and health, has announced the launch of two game-based learning challenges, the Reaxys ChemSearch Challenge (CSC) and the Engineering Academic Challenge (EAC). The challenges are designed to help students tackle contemporary, real-world problems by embracing a transdisciplinary approach to finding solutions.
As part of each challenge, participants will need to take into account external factors such as geography or alternative disciplines to find effective solutions. Both challenges are global events that use active learning to help teachers and librarians promote information literacy among undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers in industry and education.
Registration for the Reaxys ChemSearch Challenge opened on March 27 and the challenge officially launched on April 2 during the ACS Annual Meeting. The game runs for eight weeks until May 26. As part of the challenge, students - either as individuals or working in teams - will be presented with a chemistry-related conundrum each week. Each weekly challenge consists of 4-5 questions and is based on exciting innovations in chemistry such as extreme miniaturization and pressing society challenges such as antibiotic resistance. Participants have access to Reaxys while they are solving the challenges and compete based on both the accuracy and speed of getting to the answers.
The Engineering Academic Challenge began on March 27 and will run for five weeks until April 28. It is based on the same principles as the ChemSearch Challenge and features five weekly problem sets for participants to solve based on some of the most pressing issues facing engineers in the 21st century, such as preventing nuclear attacks and sequestering carbon emissions based closely on the US National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges. Students will be required to use both the Knovel and Engineering Village databases in order to complete the problems.
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