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Re: Suggestions for One Day Work Shop Ages 5 - 13
We did a similar exercise once using standard sheets of notebook paper and office tape as the 'kit' materials, with quantities of each limited; e.g., three sheets of notebook paper and three inches of office tape. The weight to be supported was an algebra textbook or something similar. The winning team was the one with the maximum textbook height, maintained for at least 60 seconds per the classroom wall clock. In extreme cases the countdown was exciting.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
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 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
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