1,200 students convened this weekend for the Tech Challenge, mainly from California but with some teams from Canada and India. The goal is to retrieve the plastic waste from the sea as quickly as possible. The challenge is that the equipment has to fit in the 4’ cube Cargo box, be unpacked and assembled in under 2 minutes; the team has to stay behind the red fence, and the plastic bottles and caps are well over 8’ away. Oh, and you have to avoid touching the plants and fish.
The most common solution involved telescoping poles and sticky tape. The next most common approach used remote controlled rovers that collected the booty from ground level.
But near the end, a team dressed in pink unpacked an incredible cube of gear that unfolded and telescoped out like a Transformer. Here is the excitement as it swings into action. More below
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