The puzzle boxes are excellent tools for teaching these same skills to design engineers and are equally successful in captivating the minds of kids in real-world problem solving with a tangible reward for success.

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ThinkQuest is an international academic competition for students to produce sets of Web pages as teaching and learning tools for use by teachers and students around the world.

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They can be held, cross-sectioned, even dissected for use as "hands-on" teaching tools.

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That means teaching, in this case, a volunteer posse the tools for achieving that good guy status.

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