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Waltham Students Create Practical Machines

Northeast Elementary School students displayed their simple machines on Friday, March 30.

(L to R): Karnav Shanker and Lulu Ohm created the Dog Pulley 3000 designed to life a dog up to a bed. The machine demonstrates the concept of pulleys.

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(L to R): Karnav Shanker and Lulu Ohm created the Dog Pulley 3000 designed to life a dog up to a bed. The machine demonstrates the concept of pulleys.

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(L to R): Third-grader Lulu Ohm and teacher Ann McNamard proudly display the machine Ohm built.

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Mia Dragone created the Drinkinator 3000 that is designed to life a bottle of water up to a bed where a sleeping person can reach it. The machine demonstrates pulleys.

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Abby Ferar created the Tucker-Inner, a machine designed to pull back blankets to give room to people getting into bed. It also release the blankets onto the sleeper.

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They are not yet professional inventors, but if their simple machine projects are any indication, some Waltham third grade students certainly have good careers ahead of them.

On Friday, March 30, several classes of students at the Northeast Elementary School displayed the simple machines they created over the past two weeks as part of an independent project.

The projects demonstrated the pulleys, vertical plaes and other simple machines' real world applications, according to Ann McNamara, one of the three teachers that hosted one of the display sessions for students and parents.

"I think they realize it is a tool [that helps people do certain tasks]," McNamara said.

The students made everything from a machine the draped blankets on people after getting into bed from another machine that lifts water from the ground to a treehouse.

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