Monday 2 January 2012

How to Save Ants

Q#99: Using a piece of wire, a car window sticker, an egg carton, and any inexpensive hardware store item, create something that would solve a problem. Tell us about your creation, but don't worry: we won't require proof that it works. (Johns Hopkins)

First you take the piece of wire and twist around itself, making tight circles at first and then gradually wider and wider. Then pull the last wire circle from the first couple of wire circles to form a cone like structure. Once you have completed that you move on to the egg carton. Rip the roof of the egg carton off of the base of the egg carton. Then you rip off the long, flat edge of the egg carton’s roof, the part with no holes or bends in it. Use that piece and coil it around the wire structure you have formed. Use the car window sticker to secure the carton piece to the wire structure. Now, it is time for the secret hardware store item: multi-surface waterproofer. Paint this onto the egg carton wire structure you have created to make it water resistant. I’m sure you are now looking at your masterpiece and wondering, “What on earth is this?” Well, it is an object you put on the peak of an ant hill when it is raining. It will kind of look like where the snow is on top a snow peaked mountain. So, when the rain falls it will slide down the sides of your structure instead of going into the ant hill, thus solving the problem of flooding ant hills.  

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