Are calico cats always female? How would Bowen fare in an earthquake? What are better, fruits are vegetables? These are just a few of the fascinating questions students tried to answer for this year’s Science Fair.
Others, like Alex Smith, just wanted to build something really cool. Alex started working on his project right after last year’s Science Fair wrapped up, and after four attempts, he managed to build a robot that can solve a Rubix Cube. The robot is made out of Lego Mindstorms and has programmable brick (Pbrick) that tells the robot what to do. Alex did not write the brick’s program, but he did have to adjust it. After four iterations, Alex’s robot solved a Rubix Cube in 3 minutes and 24 seconds.
At Tuesday evening's Science Fair, Alex's friend Baalty Cowan showed up to challenge the robot to a race. Baalty won, solving the Rubix Cube puzzle in less than 3 minutes.
