{"id":12659,"date":"2024-12-07T00:02:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T04:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zobi.alcowep.com\/bourtagshdrevxnls658739\/students-aim-high-at-nasa-jpl-candy-toss-competition\/"},"modified":"2024-12-07T00:02:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T04:02:48","slug":"students-aim-high-at-nasa-jpl-candy-toss-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zobi.alcowep.com\/bourtagshdrevxnls658739\/students-aim-high-at-nasa-jpl-candy-toss-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Aim High at NASA JPL \u2018Candy Toss\u2019 Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students Aim High at NASA JPL \u2018Candy Toss\u2019 Competition<\/h2>\n

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Members belonging to one of three teams from Oakwood School aim their devices \u2014 armed with chocolate-coated-peanut candies \u2014 at a target during JPL\u2019s annual Invention Challenge on Dec. 6.<\/div>\n
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Teams competed with homemade devices to try to launch 50 peanut candies in 60 seconds into a target container.<\/div>\n
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More points were awarded for successfully landing the candy into the highest, smallest level of the triangular Plexiglas target \u2014 not an easy task.<\/div>\n
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