Education Law

The tipping point

Remember when SUVs first came on the scene and many critics worried about them tipping over and then many of them actually did tip over?  As recently as this year, Consumer Reports advised against buying certain SUV models because of the tipping issue.  One may wonder why this problem hasn’t been fixed yet.  So we noticed this feel-good story in the Baltimore Sun about a Baltimore City Schools student who recently won a competition that may eliminate cars from tipping, not to mention helicopters and planes from spinning out of control.  Not too bad for a high school junior.

That high school junior is also receiving a full ride to college, and will be the first in his family to attend college.  His invention found that one of the biggest bugs in robotic design is they often tip.  So he concentrated his efforts on finding a way to keep them steady, and won the national prize.  Eon Duzant is also a humble student, who was impressed by the talent he was up against when he won.  He hopes to become an aerospace engineer, and if the judges in the competition are correct, we all may benefit from his work someday.

Full post as published by BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog on June 15, 2010 (boomark / email).