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| Finishing building the 4th little piggy's house! |
On Saturday April 18th, Jaymi Morseman, Tyler
Morseman, Joe Swarthout, Hallie Grant, Niko Westervelt, Krystal Kio, Amira
Wales, Cheyenne Jeffers and Kaidyn Chase, got to participate in an Engineering
Challenge at Alfred University. They
competed against teams from 4 other schools and won a trophy for “Engineering
Performance.” Students were separated
into groups of three but all scores were used for the total score. Students learned many valuable lessons about
teamwork and how the work of each individual is important to achieving the team’s
goals.
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| Waiting for the "Big Bad Wolf" |
Students were given two Engineering challenges. The first one was to build a house for the “4th
little piggy” that would withstand three things; the big bad wolf, an
earthquake, and a hurricane or as they liked to call it, “The Bigger and Badder
Wolf”. The students were faced with many
design challenges including a limited amount of materials and time, houses had
to be a certain size, have two open windows and an open door and be able to support
200 grams of “snow” on the roof. Points
were also awarded for how the house looked.
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| Working together as a team! |
The second engineering challenge was to build a rubber band
car that would travel the furthest distance.
Again they were supplied a limited amount of materials and were under
very tight time constraints. One of our
teams built a car that traveled an incredible 24 feet.
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| Ready, Set, Go! |
Students learned valuable lessons about teamwork and perseverance.
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| Waiting to see how far their car will go. It went an amazing 24 feet! |
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| Congratualations on working as a team and on winning a trophy for Engineering Performance! |
