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Article: APPLIED SCIENCE ; Students compete in tests of engineering, math, problem-solving skills
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- March 4, 2007
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Kelsy Kroeschen's airplane flew too high on wings of rice paper
and got lodged in the rafters.
It was OK. She had another aircraft, and the crowd marveled as
the rubber bandpowered balsa plane circled for 2 minutes and 48
seconds, staying aloft despite several bumps into the ceiling.
"It took one night," the 11th-grader from Cheyenne Mountain High
School said of the construction process. "You just have to know a
little bit about aerodynamics."
She was among 900 students at the Colorado Science Olympiad's
southern regional tournament, part of a national competition for
middle and high school students. It is held each year at the
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
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