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Article: CREATIVE INVENTIONS PUT JUNK TO GOOD USE.(General News)(Children tackle engineering challenges at a competition at Eugene's Science Factory)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- February 29, 2004
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Byline: Jim Feehan The Register-Guard
Ben Cooper gently slid a series of toothpicks between two foam rubber slabs to fortify his makeshift bridge Saturday. The budding engineer also used tongue depressors, cocktail straws, nylon fabric and plenty of duct tape for his contraption.
Cooper, 10, and teammate Nick Evanso, 11, both of Evergreen Elementary School in Eugene, participated in the bridge-building challenge at Saturday's Junkyard Inventions competition at the Science Factory.
Using scissors, duct tape, glue, string, juice containers, pipe insulation tubing and a hodgepodge of other recycled household items, children competed in building ...