But the magnets just wouldn't stick. If you make it with a really powerful magnet, when you try to put it on the wall it's not going to want to come off. Susan Sher's vehicle was intended to fall to the bottom of a three-level box, then deliver objects to Tory Sturgeon's crane. Wong's creation pushed a cube against the wall and nudged it upward into a scoring area, while Schell's fell just an inch or two short of getting the block to stick. Complexity usually loses to simplicity in the competition, which focuses on a different task every year, said mechanical engineering professor Erik Antonsson.
Strong designs make better products.