Samson is used as a human weight

Pictures by Mark Nahabedian
Pictures by Mike Oltmans
Pictures of construction

Platform Judging

Special thanks to Jeff Miller, grad student in biology, for judging.

Team Name Entry Name Committee Members Platform
Height(cm)
Mass
Supported(kg)
m^2h^5
(cm^5 kg^2)
Awards
Judges Samson's personal Entry Samson Timoner 7.75 in
19.685 cm
200 lbs
90.90 kg
2.4e10 +3 for being cool
Cannons Micro-Tower Rubin Brown, Leigh Heyman, Erik Miller, Nicole Love 0.5 cm 45 lbs
20.45 kg
13.068 +3 for anti-microsoft decoration
+3 for holding 0.5 kg
Cannons Tip-Over Jason Rennie, Andrew Huang, J.P. Grossman, Teresa Cataldo 15.5 in 39.37 cm 5 lbs
2.27 kg
4.9e88 +3 for being a straw
+3 for holding 0.5 kg
Cannons ETR Alex 29 in 73.66 cm 15 lbs
6.81 kg
10e10 +0.25 for decoration
+3 for holding 0.5 kg
+4 for 3rd place
+4 beating Samson
Bodies Mini-Jesse Chris Stauffer, Matthias Ruhl, David Carter, Kai Shih 0.5 cm 15 lbs
6.81 kg
1.4 +1 for cool name
+3 for holding 0.5 kg
+4 least # of straws Samson
Bodies Lincoln Memorial Jill Fekete, Mike Oltmans, Akin Aina, Todd Atkins 7.75 in 19.685 cm 110 lbs
50 kg
7.3e9 +3 "used to look cool"
+3 for holding 0.5 kg
+3 fourth place
Bodies The Bodies Tuss ?? 21.75 in 55.245 cm 7.5 lbs
3.409 kg
5.98e9 +3 worked as straw
+3 "geometric and stuff"
+3 for holding 0.5 kg
Donalds The Taj Mahal Rebecca Bisbee, Kin Tieu, Mel Goldsipe,Paulina Varchavskaia 7.75 in 19.685 cm 55 lbs
25 kg
5.8e9 +1 for cool design
+3 for decoration
+3 for holding 0.5 kg
Donalds The Trump Tower of Tech Square ?? 58.75 in 149.225 cm 7.5 lbs
3.409 kg
8.59e11 +2 for "its big"
+3 works as straw
+3 for holding 0.5 kg
+8 for 2nd place
+4 for beating Samson
Donalds Notre Dame Lauren O'Donnell, Douglas De Couto, Huizhen Yu, Attila Kondacs 4.625 in 11.7475 cm 60 lbs
27.27 kg
1.66e8 +2 for ingenuity
+3 "its pretty"
+3 for holding 0.5 kg
Sucking Sounds WGSS ?? 53.75 in 136.525 cm 22.5 lbs
10.27 kg
4.96e12 +4 for best decorated
+3 works as straw
+3 for 0.5 kg
+12 for 1st place
+4 for beating samson
Sucking Sounds Straw Hedge Sue Felshin, Marty Vona, Jeremy Brown, Liana Lorigo 3 15/16 in 10.0 cm 500 lbs
227.27 kg
5.1e9 +2 for entertainment value
+3 for 0.5 kg
Sucking Sounds SS #3 ?? 6.25 in 15.875 cm 0.5 kg
227.27 kg
2e5 +3 for being a straw
+3 for 0.5 kg



Scoring
Team Award Points Helper Points Suck Up Points Total
Cannons 23.25 +1 0 24.25
Bodies 26 +2 0 28
Donalds 35 0 0 35
Sucking Sounds 37 0 3 40

Samson Timoner (samson@ai.mit.edu)