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Students Build Electromagnetic Egg Drop Stand

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The Egg Drop is a classic way to get students into engineering, fabrication, and experimentation. It’s a challenge to build a container to protect a raw egg from cracking when dropped from various heights.

Here’s a way to add some extra hardware to use when testing each entry. It’s an  electromagnetic drop stand built by several students along with [Tom Jenkins]. The stand doesn’t require anything too exotic, and it allows students to drop their eggs in a controlled manner for a fair competition. Along the way, they learn about circuits, electromagnets, and some other electronic concepts.

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Anicca Harriot Is Dabbing Her Way to the Stars

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The 20-year-old biophysical sciences student went viral after posting a tweet calculating the angle of her dab, but that’s just one of many sci-tech accomplishments so far—and yet to come. Continue reading Anicca Harriot Is Dabbing Her Way to the Stars→

FBI Issues Alert Warning College Students of Employment Scams

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The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) issued a public service announcement earlier this week, urging college students to remain vigilant of rampant employment scams. According to the PSA, scammers continue to target students across the US by advertising phony job opportunities on college employment websites or emailing students’ university accounts. The IC3 explained how […]… Read More

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New Record for Balloon: Duration Aloft

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High-altitude balloon flights have become somewhat of a known quantity these days. Although it’s still a fun project that’ll bring your hackerspace together on a complex challenge, after the first balloon or two, everyone starts to wonder”what next?”. Higher? Faster? Further? Cheaper? More science? There are a variety of different challenges out there.

A group of Stanford students just bagged a new record, longest time in flight, with their SSI-41 mission. In addition to flying from coast to coast, on a track that went waaaay up into Canadian airspace, they logged 79 hours of flight time.

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