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My good friend J.T. (did somebody say, 'Mr. Schemm'?) teaches various
scientific ideals at New Milford High School in Connecticut, USA. One
project, where the line between home-economics and physics has been
clouded by the intricacies of postal prowess and engineering demagoguery,
follows the dilemma of sending a single Pringle® chip across
state lines, intact, edible, and in the smallest, lightest package possible.
This project is called, 'The Crisp Pringle® Challenge' 2005. Packaged Pringles® are mailed from the students' homes to an impartial destination by the postal patrons of our great United States Postal Service®. The entries are then collected and returned to New Milford High School in the dead of night under the watchful eyes of the National Reconnaissance Office and the National Endowment for the Arts for later judging at NMHS. Official rules can be found at schemmscience.com. This project taps into the very fabric of our culture today: to use our government services to our advantage, to keep our wits about us and to make practical that which carries little common sense. To his students, those that have embraced this challenge, I impart the words of the great band, Journey: "the wheel in the sky keeps on turning. i don't know where i'll be tomorrow." |
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