I received an email yesterday from a homeschool Mom who is starting up her own annual "Homeschool Pringles Challenge." The challenge? To engineer a mailable package to have the smallest volume and smallest mass that will protect the chip so that it arrives at its destination undamaged.
According to the Mom organizing the challenge, "This challenge has been done with public school students, at colleges of engineering, and many other science/engineering classes. So, I thought WHY NOT with homeschool students." There are no corporate sponsors or affiliations for the program and the prizes are listed as "pending." (Maybe someone reading this wants to donate a prize?)
You can register here by February 10th and your Pringles package must be postmarked by February 26th.
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It appears as if this challenge may have been abandoned. The final date for posting results was listed as March 9, 2007 and no results have been posted. I have tried e-mailing the organizer with no response to date, 3/12/07. Many anxious and disappointed children!