The Briefing Room
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: bigheadfred on March 25, 2017, 03:43:40 pm
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When Joey Hudy went to the White House in 2012, the 8th grade science whiz captivated President Barack Obama - and the world - with his large, orange marshmallow cannon.
He and Obama primed the homemade contraption and then blasted its sugary ammo across the room, much to the dismay of the Secret Service.
"Ohhh," Obama yelled, before retrieving the marshmallow and Hudy's business card, "just in case."
It made for a memorial moment, an Obama administration's favorite, and put Hudy, then 14, into the national spotlight. He became a celebrity Maker, a jet-setting inventor of 3-D body scanners and solar-powered computers, a promoter of STEM programs and the youngest ever corporate intern at Intel.
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