JPL Annual Invention Challenge - 2015
On a pleasant sunny day, the 2015 JPL Invention Challenge was held last Friday on the 180 Mall with more than 250 spectators and participants. This year’s contest objective was to create a device that can launch three balls at a target and achieve the most amount of points.
A total of 21 school teams and 2 JPL teams came up with different ways to accomplish this task. The energy sources were varied such as counter-rotating wheels, leaf blowers, surgical tubing, springs, and gravity. The results are shown below for each team.
My congratulations go out to everyone who worked on attempting to solve this challenging problem.
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Public Services Office
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mail Stop 126-347
Located in Building 126-336
Pasadena, CA 91109
Paul MacNeal
paul.d.macneal@jpl.nasa.gov
Phone: (818) 354-7824