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JPL ANNUAL INVENTION
CHALLENGE - November 30, 2007
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Play a Song Contest
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The tenth annual JPL Invention challenge was held
inside von Kármán Auditorium for the
first year ever, due to the rain storm that arrived
early Friday morning. Twenty school teams and three
JPL teams vied for top honors in this year's "Play
a Song" Contest. A crowd of over 300 students
and JPL employees, friends, and family watched as
the teams attempted to get their devices to play
the C major scale and their own song.
The objective of this year's contest was to create
a device that is capable of performing two tasks.
The first task is to replicate a C Major scale.
The second task is to play at least the first
ten notes of a recognizable song of your choice
in proper pitch, tempo, and meter. No electronic
speakers or electronically produced or amplified
sounds are permitted. Points will be awarded for
overall appearance, overall creativity, task 1,
and task 2 with a total possible point count of
100 points. The winner of the contest will be
the person/team whose device receives the highest
number of points.
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Entry No.
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School Name /
JPL Leader
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Team Name
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Regional Total Score
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Appearance Points
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Creativity Points
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Task 1
Total Points
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Task 2 Total Points
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Total Points
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JPL Finals Award
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| Arcadia High School |
Senioritys |
70
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3
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10
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33
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0
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46
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Loudest |
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| Arcadia High School |
The Veterans |
93
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8
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4
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0
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0
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12
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| Arcadia High School |
Random Dischord |
65
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7
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10
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31
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28
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76
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1st
- School |
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| Monroe Magnet Middle School |
F.A.M. |
61
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2
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7
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0
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0
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9
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| Monroe Magnet Middle School |
FANTASTIC X |
72
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8
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11
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0
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0
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19
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| Costa Mesa High School |
Drums and Concussion |
89
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5
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7
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0
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20
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32
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Largest |
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| Crescenta Valley High School |
Falcons |
73
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8
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7
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11
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13
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39
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Smallest |
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| Granite Hills High School |
The Pioneers |
33
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10
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10
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0
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28
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48
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Artistic |
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| Alhambra High School |
Kenneth Lu |
52
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7
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5
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13
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10
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35
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| South Pasadena High School |
SPSC |
65
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3
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9
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31
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13
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56
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| Frazier Mountain High School |
PP |
56
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4
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9
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28
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17
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58
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3rd
- School & Creative |
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| Culver City High School |
Team Infinity |
37
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1
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2
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0
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0
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3
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Lightest |
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| Artesia High School |
Decibels |
66
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5
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3
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0
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8
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16
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| Artesia High School |
The Procrastinators |
73
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3
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7
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13
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0
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23
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| Elsinore Middle School |
The 7 Composers |
38
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7
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8
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14
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13
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42
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| Monroe Magnet Middle School |
Athena |
74
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5
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7
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0
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0
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12
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| Santa Ana High School |
Saints |
17
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2
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3
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7
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5
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17
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| La Canada High Schooll |
(None) |
92
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6
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13
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26
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27
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72
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2nd
- School & Unusual & Heaviest |
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| Manual Arts High School |
Manual Arts 1 |
21
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7
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7
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8
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8
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30
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| Manual Arts High School |
Manual Arts 2 |
12
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2
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11
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0
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0
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13
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| JPL |
Kristan Ellis |
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5
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4
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8
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8
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25
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3rd
- JPL |
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| JPL |
Richard Goldstein |
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2
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5
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30
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26
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63
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1st
- JPL |
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| JPL |
Gary Gary |
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10
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10
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22
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3
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45
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2nd
- JPL |
My heartfelt thanks goes out to all of the teams
that worked so hard to get to the finals.
A special thank you goes out to Maggie Porter,
Kim Lievense and Kim's team for making the video
release process as painless as possible. Because
of the weather situation we did not need to worry
about the badging as much, but their team was
prepared for that aspect of checking-in as well.
Additional thanks goes to Randii Wessen for keeping
everyone entertained between performances and
to Chris Landry for keeping the event moving.
Grace Juong, the pianist, did an excellent job
of interpreting the sheets of "music"
that were given to her and I appreciate all of
her and her husband's hard work in getting the
keyboard set up and ready to go. The judges (Jo
Stoup, Glenn Beardsley, and Dave Taylor) did an
outstanding job of making sure that the scoring
was fair and impartial.
The volunteers for this year's contest did an
outstanding job, as always, and I wish to acknowledge
their efforts.........
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Name
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Position
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Grace Joung
Paul Woods
Jamie Piacentine
David Breda
Chris Landry
Randii Wessen
Coco Mariano
Kristen K. Sutherland
Mircea Badescu
Amy Tracy
Melissa Vick
Anthony Lopez
Jean Cheng
Christine Louie
Fabien Nicaise
Kirk Breitenbach
Dan Klein
Richard Alvidrez
Gregory Pomrehn
Lusine Margaryan
Catherine Moroney
Keith Novak
Dave Taylor
Glenn Beardsley
Jo Stoup
Michael Swanson
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Keyboard artist
General Helper
Assistant to organizer
Assistant to organizer
Starter
Announcer
Check-in
Check-in
Check-in
Check-in
Timer
Timer
Timer
Recording Secretary
Field Judge 1
Field Judge 2
Field Judge 3
Set - up helper
Set - up helper
Set - up helper
Photographer
Photographer
Judge
Judge
Judge
Safety Engineer
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Others that helped out this year include Jeff
Laughen for providing the digital weighing scale,
Mark Kennedy for videotaping the entire event,
the entire Audio/Visual group for setting up von
Kármán Auditorium on extremely short
notice, Daryl Victor for printing some of the
certificates in real time, and Rhea Borja for
working with the newspaper and news crews.
I wish to provide a final well-deserved thank
you to Jonathan Chan for his efforts in preparing
this web page.
Planning for the 2008 Invention Challenge has
already begun. See you next year!
Paul MacNeal
Contest Organizer
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