The Chain Experiment competition has been held successfully for 6 years in Poland and is attracting growing interest. The competition provides participants with a task that involves designing and constructing a contraption that is an element in a chain of events that are based on various physical phenomena. The contraptions are then linked together in a chain and made to run consecutively. The operation of a contraption starts when it receives a ball from the preceding contraption and ends when it releases another ball to the next contraption. The process of constructing the contraptions includes elements of design education. This paper examines whether participating in the competition has a positive impact on the soft skills, social abilities and motivation of the participants, as well as their learning performance, mainly in physics. Questionnaires completed after the fifth running of the competition suggest that active participation in the Chain Experiment could have a positive impact on participants’ soft skills and their abilities to solve problems, and it might also increase scientific knowledge, general interest in physics and science and motivation to be involved in similar challenges. The claim is that the format of the competition can stimulate versatile development of the participants and is a good way to arouse students’ interests in physics and engineering, even in the very early stages of their education.

Chain Experiment 竞赛已在波兰成功举办了 6 年，并引起了越来越多的关注。比赛为参与者提供了一项任务，该任务涉及设计和构建一个装置，该装置是基于各种物理现象的一系列事件中的一个元素。然后这些装置以链的形式连接在一起并连续运行。一个装置的操作从它从前一个装置接收一个球开始，并在它释放另一个球到下一个装置时结束。构建装置的过程包括设计教育的要素。本文考察了参加比赛是否对参与者的软技能、社交能力和积极性以及他们的学习表现（主要是物理）产生积极影响。第五届比赛结束后完成的问卷调查表明，积极参与链实验可以对参与者的软技能和解决问题的能力产生积极影响，也可能会增加科学知识、对物理和科学的普遍兴趣和积极性参与类似的挑战。声称比赛的形式可以激发参与者的多方面发展，并且是激发学生对物理和工程兴趣的好方法，即使在他们教育的早期阶段也是如此。对物理和科学的普遍兴趣以及参与类似挑战的动机。声称比赛的形式可以激发参与者的多方面发展，并且是激发学生对物理和工程兴趣的好方法，即使在他们教育的早期阶段也是如此。对物理和科学的普遍兴趣以及参与类似挑战的动机。声称比赛的形式可以激发参与者的多方面发展，并且是激发学生对物理和工程兴趣的好方法，即使在他们教育的早期阶段也是如此。