SAN DIEGO — 12-year-old Oliver Cottrell invented the automatic hockey puck passing machine. The La Jolla Country Day School seventh grader combined his love for hockey and mechanical engineering to create his project.
Oliver spent six months researching and building his invention. Its a machine that shoots hockey pucks out to the player when practicing. It has two modes, random fire and camera fire.
“Random fire allows the machine to shoot pucks in two random locations for the tests, and for camera fire it allows the machine to track the player and fire two pucks at their location,” Oliver said…