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News Release
Office of News and Information
Johns Hopkins University
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Baltimore, Maryland 21218-3843
Phone: (410) 516-7160 | Fax (410) 516-5251
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September 25, 2002
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Phil Sneiderman
prs@jhu.edu
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Media Alert: 'Low-Tech'
Engineering Competition
The Tools |
Rubber bands, wooden dowels, foamcore board,
construction paper, glue |
The Goal |
Move a pingpong ball around a square twice
without touching it |
The Players |
Johns Hopkins
biomedical
engineering students |
When |
2:30 to 4:30 pm. Friday, Sept. 27 |
Where |
Outside of Levering 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 |
Thirteen undergraduate teams will each
have two minutes to move a pingpong 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 foamcore (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
students can stand at each corner to guide the ball to
its next transport device. |
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 more the complicated assignments they must
complete in the future. |
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