Students Create Elaborate Homemade Machines for JPL Competition

Oakwood School’s Team Pink won first place in the Invention Challenge at N
Oakwood School’s Team Pink won first place in the Invention Challenge at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Paul MacNeal (left) has run the competition since 1998.
Oakwood School's Team Pink won first place in the Invention Challenge at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Paul MacNeal ( left ) has run the competition since 1998. Oakwood School's Team Pink won first place in the Invention Challenge at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Paul MacNeal (left) has run the competition since 1998. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech" The homemade devices built by competing teams relied on catapults, crossbows, small motors, and more to accomplish seven consecutive steps to sink a crumpled piece of paper into a wastebasket. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech" To compete in a race against the clock and each other, 18 student teams built complicated contraptions for the annual Invention Challenge at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Some 250 students hauled homemade machines they'd spent weeks honing to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Friday, Dec.
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