Crafty College Students Design Helmets to Thwart Exam Cheating

You’ve got put in lengthy hours finding out on your school midterms and don’t need anybody copying your solutions. What do you do? You cobble collectively a wacky anti-cheating helmet that blocks your friends from seeing your take a look at, after all.  

That is what college students at a faculty within the Philippines did on the prompting of their trainer, who requested them to create headgear that might stop others from copying their work.  

Mary Pleasure Mandane-Ortiz, a professor of mechanical engineering at Bicol College’s School of Engineering in Legazpi Metropolis, instructed the BBC she initially requested college students to make a “easy” design out of paper as a enjoyable means to make sure trustworthy exam-taking earlier this month. 

However these engineers weren’t going to settle for easy.

They tapped something they might discover — from paper luggage to cardboard tubes and bins, bubble wrap, cloth, garments hangers and even a tennis racket case to create headwear that obscures neighbors’ views. 

One scholar positioned an open umbrella cover atop his head, whereas one other wore headphones to carry two rectangular paper blinders in place over his ears. 

One other went with a plastic face masks just like the one the thieves put on in Netflix collection Cash Heist, solely this model has a paper rim above it bearing the phrases “midterm heist.”

Mandane-Ortiz posted pictures of the hats on Fb, incomes the scholars worldwide consideration (and possibly getting them observed by potential employers who worth creativity). Pupils at one other faculty within the Philippines, Palawan State College, even adopted go well with with their very own handmade anti-cheating contraptions.  

Imitation is the sincerest type of flattery, as they are saying, besides if you happen to’re copying another person’s examination solutions.