The University of Tulsa had a K'nex building competition on Friday. Grant, Brady, Jared and Faith formed a team and entered. When all the teams were signed in and ready, they gave them a packet of k'nex, some wheels, and a motor. The kids had 1 hour to design, build and test their final product, then they went head to head with the other teams. This year's assignment was to build a machine that would knock another team's machine off of a table.
"Team Red" with their final product getting ready to go compete.
On your mark, get set, go...(Their design is on the left)
Uh-oh...the competition is taking over. They eventually got beat in this round. Fortunately, they had time between this and their next match, so they redesigned the front of their machine.
The new design
Uh-oh...the competition is taking over. They eventually got beat in this round. Fortunately, they had time between this and their next match, so they redesigned the front of their machine.
The new design(on the right)
This was a great learning experience for our kids. I think it's cool that the TU engineering department would put something like this on.
This was a great learning experience for our kids. I think it's cool that the TU engineering department would put something like this on.
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