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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????


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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