The wonderful item “TV Series Gives Teens Hands-on Experience with Machines” (Physics Today, October 2006, page 26) encourages teens to find the satisfaction in making something of their own and seeing it work. Such working-model demonstrations should be encouraged. Recently I saw a young female student from Karnatak University (Karnatak, India) make a working model of a machine to fill overhead water tanks in homes; it had an automatic on–off switch. Such TV shows should be videotaped and shown in every classroom. In fact, video clips of working models would have been a nice and encouraging accompaniment to the article online.
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