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<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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data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4569/an_overly_complex_wacky_contraption_that_does_a_very_simple_task.wav'><span>an overly complex wacky contraption that does a very simple task</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4569/a_car_that_runs_on_electricity.wav'><span>a car that runs on electricity</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4569/a_simple_machine_for_highly_complex_activities.wav'><span>a simple machine for highly complex activities</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4569/a_type_of_telephone.wav'><span>a type of telephone</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=15995 data-hint-location='123354' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4569/what_was_the_goal_of_this_contest.wav'>What was the goal of this contest?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='to build a fun way to drop a bar of soap into your hand'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4569/to_raise_money_for_war_efforts_overseas.wav'><span>to raise money for war efforts overseas</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4569/to_publish_a_scientific_article_on_covid19.wav'><span>to publish a scientific article on COVID-19</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4569/to_build_a_fun_way_to_drop_a_bar_of_soap_into_your_hand.wav'><span>to build a fun way to drop a bar of soap into your hand</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4569/to_increase_the_grades_for_underachieving_students.wav'><span>to increase the grades for underachieving students</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=15996 data-hint-location='0' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4569/parents_around_the_world_often_urge_children_to__blank_.wav'>Parents around the world often urge children to <span class='blank'>wash your hands</span>.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='wash your hands'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4569/wash_your_hands.wav'><span>wash your hands</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4569/eat_more_candy.wav'><span>eat more candy</span></div><div class='choice' 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