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JPL Invention Challenge: Kicking the Competition (Video)

Student inventors competed alongside engineers from Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the recent event.

The challenge: The team's robot must kick a football over a barrier and into a trash can.

The student winners: Culver City High - with a rim shot.

In the 2011 Invention Challenge, the Culver City team offered this piece of advice to all budding inventors: "Simple is better.''

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