President Obama hosted some of the country's most distinguished students at the White House Science Fair on Monday, celebrating young achievements in science, technology, engineering and math, including one special troupe of girls who turned Lego into a productive piece of equipment.
The “Supergirls” Junior FIRST Lego League Team from Daisy Girl Scouts' troop 411 of Tulsa, Oklahoma built an automated device entirely out of Lego bricks to help people with arthritis turn pages of books. The group of kindergarten and first grade girls showed off their invention for the President.
Using motorized gears and rubber Lego tires to lift and turn the pages, the girls' device easily moves the pages while also keeping the book flat. The mechanism itself runs a little fast, but as one of the girls said in the video, "it's a prototype." Spoken like a true scientist.
When the POTUS asked how they came up with the idea, the six-year-old girls told him it was the power of a good brainstorm.
"Have you ever had a brainstorming session yourself?” one of the girls asked Obama. He said yes, except when he brainstorms ... “you know, I came up with things like health care.”
