A second competition involved building a robot that could travel on uneven surfaces, move objects with unusual shapes and withstand physical stress.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

Other areas of rock look as if some huge creature violently broke and twisted the Earth to create unusual, sometimes frightening shapes.

VOA: special.2011.08.03

By nineteen twenty-five, he had made enough observations to say that the universe is organized into galaxies of many shapes and sizes.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

Some of the hoodoos have interesting shapes and names, like Thor's Hammer,the Hunter, and the Wall of Windows.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

The blown piece of glass can be worked and formed to create many different kinds of shapes.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

She kept feeling the different shapes of these wires until she could see them in her mind.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

These minerals became the formations and shapes on the ceilings, walls and floors of the caves.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

She changes colors,shapes, sizes and placement of beads on the board until the design pleases her.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

Maya Lin cut out the shapes of three bodies of water using thin layers of wood.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

She liked the way she could easily form this plastic modeling material into different shapes.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

The painting is like a bright blue sky with floating circular shapes on its edges.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

Fuller found it in nature. It appeared in the shapes of organic compounds and metals.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

In mathematics, students should be working with shapes in kindergarten and angles in fourth grade.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

She enjoys choosing beads in a variety of colors and shapes, then putting them together.

VOA: special.2009.05.18