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Orland Park, Illinois 7th grade girl cracks old safe

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Orland Park, Illinois 7th grade girl cracks old safe

Postby Squelchtone » 5 May 2017 12:17

https://www.orland135.org/site/default. ... &PageID=86

OOOPS! It's not Orlando, Florida, it's Orland Park, Illinois! I made a goof! =) fixing thread title...
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Re: Orland Park, Illinois 7th grade girl cracks old safe

Postby femurat » 5 May 2017 15:24

One week after assigning the project, 7th grader Greta Acas opened the safe ... Andreasen, the safe technician ... Acas located him on allexperts.com.


It's sad to think that it will no longer be possible to ask for safe technicians help on allexperts.

Nice story anyway :)
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Re: Orland Park, Illinois 7th grade girl cracks old safe

Postby Gantry » 5 May 2017 15:51

I can barley open a 5 pin Kwickset, and a 7th grader opens a safe!!! (shakes head, looking down cast, and walks away from computer...)
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Re: Orland Park, Illinois 7th grade girl cracks old safe

Postby billdeserthills » 5 May 2017 18:04

femurat wrote:
One week after assigning the project, 7th grader Greta Acas opened the safe ... Andreasen, the safe technician ... Acas located him on allexperts.com.


It's sad to think that it will no longer be possible to ask for safe technicians help on allexperts.

Nice story anyway :)



Awww, don't be sad, perhaps locksmiths will get back to opening safes again, just like back in the long ago :P
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Re: Orland Park, Illinois 7th grade girl cracks old safe

Postby TORCH [of KCK] » 5 May 2017 18:31

Stella Bridger, in the making...
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Re: Orland Park, Illinois 7th grade girl cracks old safe

Postby dontlook » 5 May 2017 19:00

This is awesome
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Re: Orland Park, Illinois 7th grade girl cracks old safe

Postby GWiens2001 » 5 May 2017 20:11

Very proud of that young lady. She has started learning a skill that very few people have, and had a fantastic start which will, beyond doubt, have her hooked on the hobby.

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Re: Orland Park, Illinois 7th grade girl cracks old safe

Postby bitbuster » 5 May 2017 23:12

She did a fine job. Too bad AllExperts is no longer available.
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Re: Orland Park, Illinois 7th grade girl cracks old safe

Postby Silverado » 8 May 2017 7:15

Gantry wrote:I can barley open a 5 pin Kwickset, and a 7th grader opens a safe!!! (shakes head, looking down cast, and walks away from computer...)


Practice, practice, and practice, my friend! Once you learn patience and feeling your way through a lock (appropriate tension and feeling the pins) you will get there. Perseverance is the key to this hobby.
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Re: Orland Park, Illinois 7th grade girl cracks old safe

Postby Gantry » 8 May 2017 13:57

I know you're right Silverado! Oh and I see that pun you put in there "Perseverance is the key to this hobby" .
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Re: Orland Park, Illinois 7th grade girl cracks old safe

Postby tjohn » 8 May 2017 14:48

teacher using his classes (4 of them) to save him the money to open it :lol:
way to public education, dude
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Re: Orland Park, Illinois 7th grade girl cracks old safe

Postby Silverado » 8 May 2017 15:22

Gantry wrote:I know you're right Silverado! Oh and I see that pun you put in there "Perseverance is the key to this hobby" .


I'm so happy my awful puns don't go unnoticed! :lol:

tjohn wrote:teacher using his classes (4 of them) to save him the money to open it :lol: <BR abp="900">way to public education, dude


Preparing them for the real world! Welcome to the workforce kiddos! "Work hard and do it for free and you could be the next one who gets a pat on the back just like Greta got!"
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Re: Orland Park, Illinois 7th grade girl cracks old safe

Postby Ralph_Goodman » 11 May 2017 12:13

Silverado wrote:
tjohn wrote:teacher using his classes (4 of them) to save him the money to open it :lol: way to public education, dude


Preparing them for the real world! Welcome to the workforce kiddos! "Work hard and do it for free and you could be the next one who gets a pat on the back just like Greta got!"


This took away all the warm fuzzy feelings I got from the story. :(

I do have to say that this young girl is incredibly industrious. If she keeps up this level of dedication to complex problem solving, she will be formidable later in life. And that type of thing you cannot teach. Unfortunately, it is something that you can loose... especially if all you keep getting are a few pats on the back.

Hope that she has teachers that continue to challenge her. Even if she could get an apprenticeship with that safe technician, that might be a great way to encourage a continued interest in learning... but maybe that is just a glorified unpaid internship.
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