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Engineering Extended Lever "Grabbers"

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Engineering Extended Lever "Grabbers"

Algonquin

Feb 20 2026 8:00 AM

Sixth grade students in Ms. Suzanne Mynard's STEM class at Algonquin Middle School learned all about levers and even had a chance to engineer their own extenders or "grabbers."

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They class first learned about the three different types of levers: a fulcrum, an effort arm and a resistance lever, also known as a lead arm.

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The goal for the students was for them to build their own extended level "grabber" from a blueprint and successfully use it to pick up and stack items with it.

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The students crafted the grabbers out of cardboard and popsicle sticks.

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They had two days to work on this project and were constantly modifying their designs to make their grabbers as efficient as possible.

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They were challenged with using their grabber to lift up items of different sizes and place the items in cups or on top of one another.

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Their first task was to pick up different sized items, both hard and soft, from a table and put them in a small cup.

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The next challenge was to pick up plastic cups, turn them over and stack them on top of one another to build a structure.

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The record holder in the class successfully stacked six cups on top of one another!

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When the students had completed all of the challenges they worked as a group to see how many cups they could stack together.

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They had a fun time engineering, experimenting and learning the science behind extended lever grabbers!

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