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What will kids create in KDN? Take a look!

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My puppet moves with string and its feet move with a straw. -Charlotte

My puppet's head moves by string and his arm moves by string too. -Owen

My head moves by shaking a stick and my arms move up and down by strings. - Rachel

My puppet moves by pulling a stick up and down and attaching the stick to its tail. - Addison

My puppet's body and his super skirt move with string. -Emma

My puppet can move its arms up and down and cheer. -Alixe

The marble goes down the tubes and gets slowed down by feathers and pom poms inside. It goes down the steep tubes fastest.

My nose moves when I put my finger in the hole and move the finger. My eyes move when a pipe cleaner in the back gets jiggled. - Ben

When I move a stick an arm attached to it moves. - Stefan

When I move the chopstick its head moves. When I move the strings, the arms move. - Taniera

My puppet's arms move when you pull the string up and down and the legs move back and forth. - Melanie

When I wiggle one chopstick it moves the mouth and when I move the other chopstick up and down, my fish swims. - Emma

My head turns to the side and it jumps up. -David

My puppet's tongue moves and his tail moves. It's name is ITS. - Hannah

My puppet's legs move and the skirt moves forward and back. - Nakia

My wings move up and down and the head nods and shakes. -Rose

I like my puppet. It moves two ways. The arms move and I put strings on them.

When I move the sticks its arms move and I can move his sunglasses and nose with the stick attached to it.

My puppet is a marionette. Its arms move when I pull the strings attached to the hands which are attached to popsicle sticks. It can only move one arm at at time.

His eyelids move up and down and the fluffy stuff in his mouth which is mist comes out of his mouth,

It is an eagle. The wings and feet move.

My puppet is a snowman. It can move its sled and its arms.

My Dragon's arms move and his body moves feroishisly. - Ethan

It moves from the black pipe cleaner and the big ball.

My snowman moves its feet and one of its arms although it only has one arm.

It can move its body and it can move its feet.

My puppet can wave hello and it can play guitar. - Jessinia

I used string to move my puppet's arms. - Alejandro

My puppet moves with sticks and yarn. - Cooper

I make my puppet move with a stick on its head and a stick at the bottom. - Sophia

The windows and doors open and close when you pull the strings. -Tyler

You drop the marble in the top and after a few hidden obstacles, it comes out the bottom. The plastic egg is where you put the marble.

My marble goes down, across, down again, across again, and out. Piece of cake. Emme

The marble goes through the pipes and comes out the end with a few obstacles (invisible). Rose

My marble track has feathers and things that slow it down. At the end, there's a little cup and that's what the marble falls into when it's over. Ariana

The marble goes down the tube and goes into a small hole. It can then choose which way to go and it ends up in one of the holes at the bottom of the box. Addison

My chemical engineering design works really well! The sand goes into the bottom section. The beans go into the middle section. The balls go inot the top section. The gadget is called the 3-way separating gadget.

I made a door alarm system. I used a pulley, xylaphone tubes, string, and tape. You tape the pulley to the door and the string is attached to the tubes and when the door opends the tubes make noise.

My design is made of chimes and tuning forks that are tied together. That way, when you open the door, it chimes and rings!

I made a gadget that can tip over a bottle and then pull it back up. I tied a bottle to a board and put two weights on the front of the bottle. Then, I put a pulley to the bottle and put a weight on the other end of the bottle.

This is my alarm. I used a plastic flower pot, one chime, string, duct tape, and one rubber band. When a person comes in it will sound.

This is a door alarm challenge gadget. When you open the door the chimes ring. They make a really loud noise.

My project is the slowly moving marble. You drop the marble in the box. The wood that is nailed inside and the foam create friction, which slows the marble down.

When I move the strings on my puppet's ears sideways, its ears move the opposite direction. Its head moves when I pull the strings on its ears down and sideways at the same time. Anna

My marble maze works by strings that are in the beginning, middle, and the end. There is also a little stick that slows down the marble. There are also little strings in other places. Carter

There's a flap at the bottom of the track that slows it down. There's 8 little pieces of cardboard at the top of the track that slow it down. Isaac

I made a water pouring device for the chemical engineering camping challenge. -BSA

My puppet's legs move by pulling the strings that are attached to the legs. My puppet's arms can also move and I think one of the puppet's buns (in its hair) can move. Katherine

I have a foam ball for a head. It looks like it is a ghost because it has no body. You can move it's arms and legs by strings. Anne Marie

My puppet has one main part of it's body. that part is a strifoam ball because everything is attached to it. Sabrina

My puppet is a bird. It moves by pipe cleaners that are attached to a cross made out of popsicle sticks. Andrew

You put the marble at the top of the track and the marble rolls down slowly. It drops into the bowl at the bottom and then it stops moving. Simeon

We had two designs and the second one worked. We had to use more columns to support the structure than the first design. The marble took 6.0 seconds to reach the ground. Nick, Robert, Sam K.

We had many plans prior to this design. This design was long, and we used a lot of materials. At the end, all we needed were more tubes. The marble challenge lasted 2.28 seconds. Matt, Garrett, Yaniv

The design is made up of two tubes connected by half a box. To allow the marble to enter these tubes we made a funnel using a yogurt carton. We cut a hole on the bottom to allow the marble to go down the diagnolly set tubes. There were popsicle sticks on the tubes to slow it down. It worked well. David, Augusta, Ian

This design had a lot of built in tunnels made out of mostly cardboard, cups, cans, and strawberry baskets. The plan was to try and get the marble down really slow by using tape (causing friction). Kyle, Peter, Sam R.

This design used tubes and we used a lot of tape. We had to start over once because our first design wasn't working. We used an elevator initially, but it broke, so we used tubes and wire-netting. Sam M., Sam L., Malcolm, Elango

Our design had a pizza box standing up, with an egg carton next to it, with holes that allowed the marble to reach the ground. It also had a pizza box slanted, to keep the marble from going down fast. Zak, Robbie, Harry, Michael

We used popsicle sticks to make two large sticks. We wrapped rubber bands on them so they could open and close. It operates like a big pair of scissors. ~Harry, Zak, Robbie

We used a cardboard tube, popsicle sticks, rubber bands, and two types of wire. It works by pulling on the popsicle stick (which is connected to a wire) at one end of the tube. The wire connects the two "claws," at the other end, allowing it to open and close. ~Augusta, David, Ian, Malcolm

We used wood sticks, lots of tape, strawberry baskets, and popsicle sticks. It works by grabbing the wood stick, reaching out towards the scissors, and pulling inward...like a dust-pan. ~Sam M., Sam L.

We thought about scooping up the scissors with a "hand," which could resemble a broom, and scoop it into a pan. We used popsicle sticks, wood, large toothpicks, tape, and a glue gun. ~Matt, Garrett, Yaniv

We used rubber bands, cardboard tubes, a film container, popsicle sticks, wood pieces, and strawberry baskets. To pick up the scissors we cut a strawberry basket in half to create two "claws," which were glued to the cardboard tubes. The tubes were wrapped with rubber bands to allow the claws to open and close. ~Nick, Robert

We used lots of tape, popsicle sticks, and a glue gun. It works by stretching the arm out and grabbing the scissors by the other end of the arm, which is covered with tape. ~Peter, Kyle, Elango, Sam R.

We did the camping challenge. It was hard to do. We made two wooden stands and we used velcro and instead of using a jug we used a juice carton because it was smaller and the bottom was flat so the velcro could fit on easier. We used one hinge to connect the first stand and the second stand so that the carton would tip over when we pushed the metal rod with our arm and the water would fall out. --Jared P. and Graham F.

We put lots of things to slow the marble down. It worked really well, we got it to slow down and it took more than nine seconds to reach the floor. Pablo, Alec, Amir, Nikolas and James.

We had a lot of trouble designing our pathway. We had lots of ideas but they didn't work. We finally took our teacher's advice and our path worked! It took 6 seconds. We used popsicle sticks to slow it down. Esther, Jenny, Katie, Leila

We cut a tube in half and put foam inside to slow the mable down. The tube was attached to a bigger cardboard tube. There was another tube that followed which had popsicle sticks poking into it that slowed the marble. Then we had a bumpy piece of cardboard that lead to the floor. It took more then five seconds to reach the floor. Noah, Curtis, Zachary, Marc and Ben

Our goal was to make our marble slow down. Our first design did not have any obstacles so we aded some popsicle sticks and our marble slowed down. It took more than five seconds to touch the ground. Antony, Ian, Mitchel and Nicholas.

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