My work had a Building Competition a few weeks back, and I wanted to post some of the most interesting runs from the event. Here are the TOP 5 Building Competition Runs (the rules and the video of my team's run and the winning run can be seen at the link above):
#5 - "The Slackers"This was a design by my friend Devin. It failed on the first run, so he modified it for the 2nd run to imitate another design (see #1 on this list). That failed as well.
Technically we had up to 2 minutes to get it to cross the finish line (of course Devin had to wait the full 2 minutes), but I gave up after 30 seconds.
#4 - "Helium Lift"This team used day-old helium balloons to reduce weight from the duck and "float" it to the finish line. It kinda worked, but they were disqualified from their second run.
#3 - "Balloon Bounce"
This team simply put the duck INSIDE the balloon and then blew it up! It worked pretty well, but was a little floppy and that ended up slowing it down. They were also disqualified on their 2nd run. One of our brainstorms matched this idea using the giant punching balloons, but it turned out those were too easy to jump over the wall as well.
#2 - "Stairway to Heaven"
This was the most unique design. They created a huge tower as tall as the ceiling that would basically reach all the way to the finish line when it fell over and spit out the duck. It worked really well, but their aim was off on the first run. Then everyone realized this broke the "no part of the vehicle left behind" rule, so for their second run they just put the duck in a ball.
#1 - "Sled Parachute"
This was a submission from a student at the local high school. He was in 2nd place for the majority of the day until we bumped him into 3rd on our last run. His 2nd run didn't make it when his "parachute" got trapped in one of the fans.
Those were some pretty good ideas that people came up with. Wish I could have been there to see them in person, it sounded like lots of fun!
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