This was the third year David did the San Jose Tech Museum’s Tech Challenge. This year’s challenge was to cross two ravines. Which translated to crossing two tables without leaving any pieces behind. The second table was higher as well. The kids worked really really hard on this extremely tough challenge.
As always they went to have an interview with the judge before the challenge itself where they were asked a lot of questions. We got to watch this from above. And then they did the challenge itself. Their amazing gondola made it through the first table but then fell on the way to the third. And then they ran out of time, so they didn’t get to fully complete it.
They were all dejected as they walked away to get their medals and their photo taken.
But we were all so proud of their incredibly unique design and creative thinking. and incredible work.
As it worked out, they ended up winning an award anyway. They won Outstanding Engineering Journal which was almost funny because it was such an uphill battle getting that journal together this year.
In the end, it was all worth it and another year of wonderful memories, hard work, and very proud parents!
Stories from 2017 is a year-long project for 2017. You can read more about my projects for 2017 here.
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