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Article: One thing led to another ... and students at Deer-Isle Stonington learned about solving problems in a creative, collaborative and kinetic chain-reaction project
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
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- May 12, 2009
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Ingrid, get your hat!"
With those words from a crowd gathered a little after 1 p.m.
Friday in the courtyard at Deer Isle-Stonington High School, Ingrid
Menken broke into a short sprint to a spot just a few feet away.
There, a colorful hat was perched on the head of an old baby doll.
Menken grabbed the hat off the doll's head, and the doll - after
some human coaxing - started to crawl. A string attached to the doll
tripped an old iron, which slid down a ramp, triggering a mousetrap.
Thus began Chain Reaction 2009, a project of almost 20 high
school students, their teachers, several community members, and
Massachusetts-based kinetic sculptor Arthur Ganson, who was brought
to the area by the ...