Brandon Middle School. (Short Stuff).NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. scientists, engineers and chain store managers met with students of Brandon Middle School in Mississippi to confer about a solution to an important community issue-runaway shopping carts! Seventh-graders Joel Anderson, patricia Rincon, Lauren Rushing and Patrick Hall devised an automatic braking mechanism for their award-winning invention The Stopping Cart. The kinds' engineering ingenuity landed them first place in the Bayer/National Science Foundation Award, and will save stores tons of money. Officials representing national chain stores told the kids they pay an average of $5,000 per store nationwide in claims related to shopping cart damage to cars in their parking lots. The brakes are positioned at the handle of the cart and help stop the cart quickly and easily. Easy student won a trip to Walt Disney World Noun 1. Walt Disney World - a large amusement park established in 1971 to the southwest of Orlando Orlando - a city in central Florida; site of Walt Disney World and received a $5,000 U.S. savings bond Savings bond A government bond issued in face value denominations from $50 to $10,000, with local and state tax-free interest and semiannually adjusted interest rates. savings bond A nonmarketable security issued by the U.S. . Now, if we could only get a cart that comes with power steering and a five-disc CD changer Changer The name given to a clearing member that is willing to assume the opposite position of a futures contract within a larger alternative exchange, of which it also is a clearing member. . |
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