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04-22-2014, 06:53 PM
3D-Printed Ketchup Cap Will Prevent That Gross, Watery Mess
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Tyler Richards and Jonathan Thompson, two high school seniors from Liberty, Mo., have a shared love for the popular condiment and creativity. The teens are part of the Project Lead the Way (https://www.pltw.org) program (a national STEM learning initiative) and decided to focus their attention on a particularly frustrating problem: minimizing the watery mess that results from the first squirt of ketchup.
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According to local news station Fox4 (http://fox4kc.com/2014/04/15/liberty-**rth-high-schoolers-create-solution-to-ketchup-woes/) in Kansas City, their teacher initially nixed the project idea, but Richards and Thompson collected e**ugh research, data and patent information to convince him. Soon, they were inventing a 3D solution to ketchup's messy problem. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/22/3d-printed-cap-for-ketchup/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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