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Getting Technical
Across 1 LEGO League, Tech Challenge, and Robotics Competition sponsor 5 Competition for autonomous robots that score points with pingpong balls 8 Playing card 9 Reactivate a security system 10 Positive or negative whole number or zero 12 Aluminum’s atomic symbol 13 Star Trek’s sentient android 15 A sketch 17 “pwn” is derived from this verb 18 Three feet 20 Single 22 Basic unit of life 24 Flow out quickly 26 Unit of electrical charge, named for a pioneer in the field of magnetism and electricity 28 Stopwatch 30 Deciliter (abbr.) 31 Junior Engineering Technical Society 32 The act or state of sticking together 37 The Bullet is the name for the latest innovation in this form of transport 38 Physicist who gave his name to a temperature scale and also supervised the laying of a trans-Atlantic cable in 1866
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by Myles Mellor
Down 1 “Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it is consistent with the laws of nature.” –Michael ___, discoverer of electromagnetic induction 2 Slang for diamonds 3 Device to generate and sustain nuclear fission 4 Edison, to his friends 5 Basic element or part of something (2 words) 6 Set of four 7 Eighth month 11 Conforming to a standard or pattern 14 All-wheel drive 16 H 20 cube 19 Positive electrode 21 European Union (abbr.) 22 Integrated circuits 23 Black ___, a device whose inner workings are unknown 25 Street or saint 27 Prefix for violet, conservative, or man 29 Part of the Freudian concept of the psyche 31 The “J” in JPL 33 Right-angled bend 34 Sundial number 35 Nickel’s atomic symbol 36 Optical networking (abbr.)
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Imagine Magazine - Johns Hopkins - May/June 2010