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"Here's how to build a straw rocket from paper, sticky notes, and tape using just a pencil and scissors. The sticky notes allow students to easily change the tail fins to see what works best. Fifth grade students constructed straw rockets like this during engineering week talks at elementary schools. "

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"Lesson from TeachEngineering.org. Contributed by the Techtronics Program, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University. Note: This activity, part of a teachengineering curricular unit on Engineering and the Human Body that includes a lesson on the heart, could be enhanced with two preliminary heart-valve activities - Engineering the Heart and Saving a Life: Valve replacement"

"With just one week until Sound Check Australia closes we thought we'd peek into the huge digital vault of data to produce some (non-scientific) early results. Disclaimer:Please note that these early results have not been scientifically validated - they're just a taste of the numbers so far.  The really juicy scientific findings will come out after the data is properly validated and analysed."