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Jason enjoys designing new things and playing the French horn and mellophone. He'd like to become an engineer someday because he loves "taking things apart and putting them back together."
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While visiting his brother, an entomologist who specializes in mosquitoes, Jason saw some mosquito traps. His brother challenged him to improve on the existing traps or design a new and better one. Because mosquitoes are attracted to motion, Jason hypothesized that a mobile trap would catch more mosquitoes than the existing stationary ones.
Jason attached a standard mosquito trap to a toy train and allowed it to catch mosquitoes for two hours at dusk. He compared the number of mosquitoes in the mobile trap to those caught by a nearby stationary trap. He found that the mobile trap caught significantly more mosquitoes than the stationary one.
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