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News Release
Office of News and Information
Johns Hopkins University
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Baltimore, Maryland 21231
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Oct. 15, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Phil Sneiderman
443-287-9907
prs@jhu.edu
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MEDIA ALERT
Attention: Assignment Editor
'Low-Tech' Engineering Competition
The Tools: |
rubber bands, wooden dowels, foam core
board, construction paper, glue |
The Goal: |
move a ping pong ball around a square twice
without touching it |
The Players: |
Johns Hopkins
biomedical
engineering students |
When: |
2:30 to 4:30 pm. Saturday, Oct. 16,
2004 |
Where: |
Outside of Shriver Hall, The Johns Hopkins
University Homewood campus, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore,
Md. (If conditions outside are unsuitable, backup location
is inside the nearby Glass Pavilion.) |
What: |
Nine undergraduate teams will each have two
minutes to move a ping pong ball twice around a square (at
least 12 feet long on each side), without touching it with
their hands and without allowing the ball to touch the
ground. Each team will use low-tech materials such as foam
core (posterboard), rubber bands, construction paper,
wooden dowels and glue, to engineer and build ramps,
launchers, pipelines and carriages to move the ball around
the square. One student can stand at each corner to guide
the ball to its next transport device. The students will
also measure the effect of stress on heart rate by having
team leaders wear monitoring devices. |
Why: |
The goals of the competition are to
encourage teamwork and peer-learning(freshmen learn from
more experienced student team members) and to help students
understand the process of designing, building and testing a
project, skills they will need for the more complicated
assignments they must complete in the future. |
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