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Article: Argonne National Laboratory 5th Annual Contest: Students Create Wacky, Complicated Machines.
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- April 7, 2000
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ARGONNE, Ill., Feb. 29 /PRNewswire/ --
Students from Chicago-area high schools are learning about science and engineering by digging through closets, basements and attics for discarded doohickeys and forgotten thingamajigs and assembling them into elaborate "machines."
These machines must take at least 20 steps to fill and seal a clear glass jar -- sort of a simulated time capsule -- with models or samples of significant inventions of the 20th century. The teams will put their machines to the test in Argonne National Laboratory's fifth annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, Friday, March 3, at Chicago Children's Museum on Navy Pier. The contest will ...