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NRC Challenge 2006

This year's challenge is to design and build a Disaster Relief OPeration (DROP) vehicle. DROP'S purpose is to simulate supply transfers to survivors of natural disasters. The competitors must design a prototype vehicle that can preserve the structure of an egg after dropping 1.75 metres from a ramp.The prototype must land on a target 1.75 metres away from the drop point. Please visit: www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/education/t-newchallenge_e.html for more information occurring in the Ottawa region.