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Build-It-Yourself
Lab Book
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Laws of the Lab
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Laws of the Lab
1) Respect teammates Did you share ideas, help someone or lead your team?
2) Respect your lab Did you clean up, take care of tools and sort parts?
3) Dont do stupid stuff Did you do anything you would not want your parents to know?
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Extreme Building
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Extreme Building

• Multiple brains are better than one.
• Share ideas.

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The Problem
The Mission
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The Problem
Our good earth is getting fouled up 'cause too
many people are throwing away their junk. 
The Mission
The Build-It-Yourself crew is on an important
mission to turn trash into treasure. We must
build a radical, tropical, botanical,
mechanical garden from premium quality junk.
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Presenting Ideas
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Presenting Ideas
Cool
Way Cool
Ugly
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Gear Trains Control

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Gear Trains Control

1. Speed
2. Strength
3. Direction

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Tool Rules

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Tool Rules

1. Dont cut your finger off!
2. Hold your work firmly.
3. Cut away from all eyes. Wear goggles.
4. Think what would happen if you slipped.
5. Dont say I cant.
6. Clean up your messes.

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Choose and Use Tricks
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Choose and Use Tricks
1 Collect premium quality junk and sort it. 2
Conserve materials. 3 Use pliers, not
scissors to cut hard stuff. 4 Little glue
Lots of pressure. 5 Build to modify or fix
your designs
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Premium Quality
Junk

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Premium Quality
Junk

1. Colorful
2. Light
3. Unusual shapes

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Measures of
Success!
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Measures of
Success!
1 Does it do something useful? 2 Does it use
creative materials? 3 Does it look way cool?
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Problem Solving Tricks
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Problem Solving Tricks
1 Define the problem and set goals. 2 Dont
reinvent the wheel. 3 Work together. 4 Break
your solution into parts. 5 Document.
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Modular Construction



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Modular Construction
Build quickly.
Change your solutions easily.
Make your contraptions reliable.
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