Students at Ira Jones and Aux Sable middle schools in Plainfield won honors for their machines

Plainfield – Eighth-grade students at Ira Jones and Aux Sable middle schools won honors for their pneumatic lifter machines in the National Fluid Power Association’s Fluid Power Challenge held last month.

A four-member team from Aux Sable won Best Machine Performance, and a four-member team from Ira Jones won Best Machine Design at the contest, held Nov. 13.

Students from Heritage Grove Middle School also participated in the challenge sponsored by Caterpillar, Inc., and held at Joliet Junior College.

Each team had to recreate their machines in a four-hour competition on challenge day.

View the Ira Jones machine in action (25 seconds): http://ww2.psd202.org/s/ijfluidpowerdemovid1115.