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12/14/2015

Daman Announces 2015 Fluid Power Challenge is On!

DamanEvery once in a while we have the opportunity to be part of something wildly successful.  The Fluid Power Challenge is one of those things. To be in our sixth year of sponsoring this opportunity for seventh and eighth grade area students to experience mechanical and hydraulic engineering concepts -- and they are still thrilled about it -- is a homerun!

Past teams report it is the hardest thing they have done in school and yet they loved it!  With very little coaching, we give teams of four students a package containing wood, paper, glue, tubing, and syringes, send them off to design and build this year's challenge machine which they will design around the defined work to be accomplished.  It is real world as the competition requires time management, project planning, resource management, team dynamics, working to deadlines, testing and adjusting, exploration, overcoming obstacles, and working under the pressure of a deadline.

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