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Preview: Boy Scouts Pinewood Derby at Westfield Brandon Shopping Mall
Boy scouts design, carve, paint, add weights and fine-tune their entries in the annual pinewood derby. A local display of the competition effort is under way today, Jan. 14, in the Westfield Brandon shopping mall.
Boy Scouts and derby cars will be present in force today, Jan. 14, at the shopping center.
The pinewood derby calls for boys, with the help of their families, to build their wooden cars from kits containing a block of pine, plastic wheels and metal axles.
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The cars are raced in competition, powered by gravity and run down a track, with each scout building his own "grand prix" from start to finish. The aim is to with the aim to help scouts overall celebrate building skills, the rules of "fair play" and good sportsmanship.
The derby tradition started on May 15, 1953, when Don Murphy, a cubmaster in Manhattan Beach, Calif., sought a replacement for his son who was too young to participate in the popular Soap Box Derby races.
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The pinewood derby was set to start 10 a.m. in the mall's West Wing, in front of .
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