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fromBrooklyn Paper
2 weeks ago

Brooklyn kids put creativity in the driver's seat at 18th annual South Slope Soap Box Derby * Brooklyn Paper

Nearly 90 homemade soap box cars raced down 17th Street in a creative, family-friendly South Slope derby celebrating recycling, engineering, and playful chaos.
fromGothamist
3 weeks ago

Clanks, whirs, creativity: Kids' ingenuity drives invention for Brooklyn's South Slope Derby

In a junkyard just off 19th Street in Park Slope, 8- to 14-year-olds have been sawing, drilling and painting, surrounded by brightly colored piles of wood, rope-and-tire swings and lots of wheels. They're getting ready for Saturday's 18th annual South Slope Derby, when hundreds of spectators will cheer on dozens of kids racing their own custom-built cars down 17th Street. Every summer, KoKo NYC - the program that runs the race - organizes workshops where kids design and build their vehicles.
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