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JPL Annual Invention Challenge - 2002 Results
 
 
Welcome to the 2002 JPL Annual Invention Challenge's Results Gallery. Clicking on the titles will provide notes from each contestant about what they invented, how they made it, and lessons learned from their invention.

The objective for this year's contest was to create a device that launches fifty (50) officially supplied jellybeans into a target located five meters away in less than sixty seconds. The contest winner will be the person whose device generates the highest point total of jellybeans in the target.

For the rules please Click Here! Questions related to this contest should be directed to: Paul MacNeal at: work phone (818)354-7824, FAX (818)393-1156, MS 157-500, located in Building 157-510, or e-mail to paul.d.macneal@jpl.nasa.gov.

2002 Invention Challenge "Jellybean Toss Contest" Participants

List of JPL Participants
Entry Team Name Title of Entry Win Bonus Glass? Point Total Award
2   Jelly Belly Robo-Flop No 27  
4   The Magnetic Machine Gun No 145 1st Place
5   Bazooka Launcher No 3  
7   Jury Rigged Jelly Rammer No 71 3rd Place & Most Creative
8   Puff the Magic Dragon No 47  
22   Lil' Stinker III No 69  
41   The JellyBelly Tosser No 0  
44   The Bean Machine No 41 Largest & Heaviest
45   Super Jellybean Fling Thing No 0  
46   Bean Boy No 105 2nd Place
47   Jelly Beany Tossaroony No 9  
48   Ozzy Tesseraction Mach 50 No 0  
49   7-8 No 5 Smallest
50   6-7 No 11 Lightest
51   The Arm of Uma No 4  
List of School Participants
Entry Team Name Title of Entry Win Bonus Glass? Point Total Award
9 Biased Launcher A No 0  
11 Knights of All Things Science (KATS) The Knight Cannon No 13  
13 Nerd Pride Jelly Bean Launchers No 0  
14 Mustangs Santa's Little Helper No 6 Most Artistic
15 Conquerors L.A.J.B.L 1 No 60  
18 Weasels Weaselator No 8  
20 BRITE-BOTS TBD No 0  
21 Mighty Moors Belly Beans No 73 3rd Place
23 Flacons TBD No 132 1st Place
24 Absolute Value #1 - Saleen TBD No 6  
25 Absolute Value #2 - Notorious B.O.T. TBD No 4  
26 Absolute Value #3 - ELEET TBD No 15  
27 TBD - 1 TBD No 7  
29 Alpha TBD No 0 Most Unusual
30 Serendipity N.R.A. 4ever No 0  
31 Three Down, One to Go Carbohydrate Flinger No 0  
32 Titan B Team (2) TBD No 2  
33 Titan A Team TBD No 15  
34 Grade Team No 2  
35 Grade Team (2) No 119 2nd Place
37 ROP Roboticists Mischevious Mechanism No 9  
38 Beta (2) TBD No 2  
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