Oxbow LEGO Team Needs Your Votes

The following was submitted to White Lake Patch by the Oxbow LEGO Team.

A group of 5th graders from Oxbow are working on an exciting project, and they need your help. During LEGO research this year they invented a product. They learned in their research that sandwiches often come to school and sit in tubs or lockers for several hours. Through extensive testing, both at Oxbow and in association with students from Iowa State University, they learned that sandwiches that reach a temperature of more than 50 degrees for more than 2 hours are considered in the danger zone. All sandwiches without ice packs that we tested were found to be in this zone, and many with ice packs were also. 

The solution they came up with is called the Chilly Willy. It is a plastic container the shape of a sandwich, with water filled chambers all around it, much like the mugs you freeze. Just keep it in freezer, and then pop your sandwich in it each morning. Testing showed this container dropped the sandwich temperature 20 degrees and kept it there for 5 hours. These results were confirmed by Iowa State, and published on their website. We wanted to patent and produce this product, but learned quickly that this costs more than $10,000 (regardless of what you see in ads on TV). Instead we entered a contest called Global Innovations. It is only for LEGO teams. The top 10 vote-getters are automatically moved to the semifinals, along with 10 teams chosen by judges for practicality and feasibility. The Oxbow team believes their product will be chosen in the second category, but don’t want to leave anything to chance. Winners receive more than $250,000 in prizes, including a patent and having their product created and marketed. 

You are allowed to vote once per 24-hour period, per IP address, (so only once per school building). So you could vote once from school, home and cell phone per day. Voting is easy. Just follow the link below where you will the team's picture and a brief write up. On the right hand side of the screen click on the red vote button. We are presently in 15th place and climbing fast. Please help us by voting daily from now until March 1. How cool would it be to see kids from Huron Valley get an award like this?

Vote at http://fllinnovationaward.firstlegoleague.org/chilly-willy