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Hughes Discovery Event October 31st

On October 31st, Hughes Academy hosted a NEXT Engineer Discovery event featuring the Tall-Tower challenge.  This challenge is one of many used to spark the interest of young students in engineering fields while also adding a little friendly competition into their average school day.  During this challenge, students are split into teams with limited amounts of paperclips, pipe cleaners, and straws with the goal of building the tallest tower capable of holding a golf ball.  The students’ creativity shined through, and we saw numerous ideas for different tower designs, with the tallest coming out to be around 63 cm tall!

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