Slingshot Questions

1.

What is Deans most famous invention? The Segway

2.

What was Deans first invention? Pharmaceutical transporters

3.

What are 50% of all human disease caused by? Water

4.
What is the name of Deans latest invention (the water distiller)? The
Slingshot
5.

What organization did Dean form for students? First

6.
What company did Dean work with for the clean water project? The CocaCola Company
7.
Goliath

Where did the name Slingshot come from? The story of David and

8.

How many liters of water will the Slingshot produce every day? 1000 liters

9.
What does Dean compare the Ghana prototype to? A child that was too
fragile// the prototype wasnt really ready to be used
10.
What were some of the problems with the Ghana prototype? The original
was just way too heavy
11.

Dean has a silent partner. Who is it? A stuffed bear

12.
Women in underdeveloped countries spend how many hours looking for
drinking water? 4 hours or
even entire days spent searching for water
13.
What happens when the water found was not good water? They would get
very ill and usually die
14.

What is one machine Dean wishes was invented now? Time Machine

15.
Why should we care about what Slingshot does? It has the potential to
provide clean drinking water to billions of people
16.
What is a world problem you think we should fix? Living conditions, and
helping the poverty that some of the 3rd world countries suffer from
17.
If you are on a FIRST team, how does FIRST prepare you to solve problems?
The team teaches you skills and different techniques to go around fixing a
problem with others that can help
18.
Why is it important not to quickly dismiss new ideas? Time changes,
technology has advanced so much in the past decades, you could look back
and regret you said its never possible