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2010 Contest Results

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Arts and Leisure Category

  • FIRST PLACE:

    Kenneth "Tucker" Haas - Grade 7 - Charlotte, NC - Homeschooled: "Webands Waterbands"

    Weband Waterbands is a social project designed to engage kids to become advocates for nonprofit organizations through their purchase of colored and printed rubber bands. The bands are then used to decorate reusable or disposable water bottles, giving kids a place to display their support for their chosen cause. The bands are printed with the phrase, "We band together...." followed by the cause.


  • RUNNER-UP:

    Zachary Althouse - Grade 5 - Paducah, KY - Lone Oak Elementary: "Ping-Pong Equipment Organizer"

    The Ping-Pong Equipment Organizer was made to help keep track of all ping-pong equipment. It works well, because once you take one ball out, the rest stay in. It avoids balls from falling on the floor. One side of the invention can hold up to three ping-pong balls, and the other side can hold two or more paddles. This invention keeps the equipment organized.

Science and Engineering Category

  • FIRST PLACE:

    Benjamin Dabney - Grade 7 - Radford, VA - Homeschooled: "ElastiBed"

    The "ElastiBed" provides a safe sleeping haven for children and infants in developing countries by protecting them from the harmful effects of mosquitoes, the primary carriers of the deadly disease, malaria. When used in combination with mosquito nets, it will provide a greatly improved barrier against mosquitoes, and lead to fewer children catching the disease.


  • RUNNER-UP:

    Shelby Dodds - Grade 7 - Washington Court House, OH - Greenfield Middle School: "Hand-E-Spider Web"

    The "Hand-E-Spider Web" is a device for excerising the arthritis patients' hands. This new invention allows the individual to put their hands into the web on both sides. With their hands in the web, the person stretches and closes their hands in the webs so that they are flexing as well as strengthening the individual joints of the hand. This invention can help make life easier for people who have arthritis in their hands.


2010 SEMI-FINALISTS


Arts and Leisure Category

Science and Engineering Category

The Rubber Band Contest is hosted by The Akron Global Polymer Academy at The University of Akron.