Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Science Project: Drivers start your engines...

Welcome to the Indiantrappolis 500 folks! Here you will find that we have replaced our thunderous Monte Carlos with finesse mouse trap powered vehicles of the most intricate design. As a Jr High teacher I recently hosted a competition among the students involving mouse trap powered vehicles. The students worked in teams competing to send a mouse trap powered vehicle the greatest distance. To add spice and flamboyancy to the competition, I chose to allow a certain level of cheating...I allowed the teams to harness elasticity power as long as the power remained sourced in the mouse trap.


Behold the winner! This fine piece of work was smashing into the end of our longest hallway at a pretty dangerous clip.


















Not to be scoffed at, much of the competition had their own qualities to boast of, as each of their teams would be quick to tell you.




































































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