Parents around the world often urge children over and over wash your hands! This advice was already common before the coronavirus crisis. Now there is added pressure on children, as well as adults, to wash their hands even more. It can be difficult, however, to get children to remember to wash and many are likely to resist. But what if washing hands was connected to a fun, creative activity? What if instead of simply reaching for the soap, a machine could drop it right into your hands? Well, such a machine was recently built by a boy and his sister in the U.S. state of Maryland as part of a creative competition. The not-for-profit Rube Goldberg organization is holding the competition. Rube Goldberg was an American cartoonist, engineer, and inventor among other things. He was known for his complex chain reaction machines. On the organization’s website, Goldberg’s granddaughter Jennifer George describes such a machine as an overly complex “wacky contraption that in the end does a very simple task.” Every year, the Rube Goldberg competition considers inventions made from everyday items that use complex systems to carry out a simple task. At first, the task for 2020 was supposed to be “turn on a light.” But when the coronavirus pandemic happened, the task was changed to “drop a bar of soap into someone’s hand.”
Title: Contest Makes Handwashing Fun for Children
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4569/A.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Contest Makes Handwashing Fun for Children' data-article-id='5096'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='8063'>Parents around the world often urge children over and over wash your hands!</span> <span data-start-time='8063' data-end-time='14333'>This advice was already common before the coronavirus crisis.</span> <span data-start-time='14333' data-end-time='23146'>Now there is added pressure on children, as well as adults, to wash their hands even more.</span> <span data-start-time='23146' data-end-time='32104'>It can be difficult, however, to get children to remember to wash and many are likely to resist.</span> <span data-start-time='32104' data-end-time='38667'>But what if washing hands was connected to a fun, creative activity?</span> <span data-start-time='38667' data-end-time='47854'>What if instead of simply reaching for the soap, a machine could drop it right into your hands?</span> <span data-start-time='47854' data-end-time='61271'>Well, such a machine was recently built by a boy and his sister in the U.S. state of Maryland as part of a creative competition.</span> <span data-start-time='61271' data-end-time='68771'>The not-for-profit Rube Goldberg organization is holding the competition.</span> <span data-start-time='68771' data-end-time='78042'>Rube Goldberg was an American cartoonist, engineer, and inventor among other things.</span> <span data-start-time='78042' data-end-time='84688'>He was known for his complex chain reaction machines.</span> <span data-start-time='84688' data-end-time='102250'>On the organization’s website, Goldberg’s granddaughter Jennifer George describes such a machine as an overly complex “wacky contraption that in the end does a very simple task.”</span> <span data-start-time='102250' data-end-time='115771'>Every year, the Rube Goldberg competition considers inventions made from everyday items that use complex systems to carry out a simple task.</span> <span data-start-time='115771' data-end-time='123354'>At first, the task for 2020 was supposed to be “turn on a light.”</span> <span data-start-time='123354' data-end-time='133896'> But when the coronavirus pandemic happened, the task was changed to “drop a bar of soap into someone’s hand.”</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' 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