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Choosing the best \u201cRube Goldberg Machine\u201d built by local high school students at the Chain Reaction Contraption Contest at Carnegie Science Center was not easy, but Davison\u2019s VP of Design, Pete, and designer, Clay, were up to the task. They chose the \u201cGator Vendomator\u201d created by a team from Gateway High School to win the \u201cWhat Will You Create?\u201d award sponsored by Davison. The contraption made change for a dollar bill in 22 steps using a series of levers.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a really neat machine, with a lot of complicated mechanisms,\u201d said Pete. \u201cIf they could automatically reset it, people would be putting dollars into it all day long.\u201d<\/p>\n
For winning the award, the winning team and their honors physics classmates were given a tour of Davison\u2019s unique design facility, Inventionland. Gifted coordinator, Jim, thought it was \u201ca once in a lifetime experience\u201d for his students, who \u201clike to think outside the box,\u201d to see how engineering and creativity go hand in hand.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a perfect example of engineering and creativity coming together; I\u2019ve always encouraged that.\u201d![\"Davison](\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/MG_4544-300x200.jpg\" "\\"\\"")
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The teacher was hoping his students would be inspired by the visit to pursue their interests in the field of engineering and science; he also thought seeing that they don\u2019t necessarily have to work in a dull office would encourage them.<\/p>\n
\u201cStudents associate engineering with sitting in an office doing boring work; seeing a place that looks like this can alter their perception,\u201d said Jim. \u201cAnd having a place like this in Pittsburgh \u2013 it\u2019s a treasure, and it\u2019s appropriate because of Pittsburgh\u2019s history of inventing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Several students in the class are interested in engineering and \u201ca number of them are just extremely creative. They tend to attack a problem from a different level,\u201d said Lynn, gifted coordinator.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we opened up the tour many of them jumped at the chance to come. Having these opportunities out there in the work force, not just the standard engineering job, is inspiring for them \u2014 especially in Western Pennsylvania,\u201d she continued. \u201cTo have it so close to home and to have the opportunity to see it is an inspiration for the kids to pursue something like this.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Pete is looking forward to seeing more inventive creations and \u201cchain reaction contraptions\u201d at the next Carnegie Science Center competition \u2014 It\u2019s a tough job, but somebody\u2019s got to do it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really neat to see the inventions of young people. There was a lot of competition this year,\u201d Pete said. \u201cEvery year it gets better and better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Choosing the best \u201cRube Goldberg Machine\u201d built by local high school students at the Chain Reaction Contraption Contest at Carnegie Science Center was not easy, but Davison\u2019s VP of Design, Pete, and designer, Clay, were up to the task. They chose the \u201cGator Vendomator\u201d created by a team from Gateway High School to win the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,24,66],"tags":[111,114,25,60,330,88],"class_list":["post-3436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-davison-news","category-inventor-stories","tag-awards","tag-community-news-2","tag-davison-news","tag-inventing","tag-invention-factory","tag-inventors"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n