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- From: ajackson@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Andrew William Jackson)
- Subject: Re: Contraption building ideas?????
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.054654.7487@Princeton.EDU>
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- In article <1992Nov22.230220.7359@ee.ubc.ca> jeffc@ee.ubc.ca (Jeffrey Chow) writes:
- >Hi,
- >
- > I'm leading a group of people in a contraption building activity.
- >I'm looking for ideas for contraptions which exploit creativity and
- >innovation on the part of the participants.
- >
- > The people(mostly adults from late teens to mid 20s) will be given
- >approximately one hour to design and build the contraption to see who
- >has built the most engineeringly sound device. I'm looking for contraption
- >ideals which do not require expertise in any specific area of engineering,
- >and would be cheap and fun to build.
- >
- > Some contraptions that have been built before include:
- > - a contraption to protect a raw egg from cracking when dropped
- > from a fixed height
- > - paper plane with largest wingspan which could fly the farthest
- > - balloon powered cardboard cars with the longest range
- >
- > Anybody got some other neat ideals????
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- Howabout -bridges (cardboard/paper) or supports
- -paper object that takes the longest time to
- hit the ground from a specified height
- -build the highest tower out of some
- specified number of 8 x 10 sheets of paper
- -a boat out of clay that holds the
- most number of marbles without sinking
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- ajackson@ernie.princeton.edu
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