The Owen/Kelsey team has been doing a great job with writing down their ideas! Kelsey is hard at work, learning OnShape to create a CAD model of their design. They have a preliminary drawing of their design on paper as well:
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Joey and I designed a challenge for one of our summer meetings. Since almost all of what we do is FTC, we thought something different would be a fun challenge for the students. Everyone loves launching things, so we decided that catapults was the perfect solution! The summer meetings have only had 6 students regularly attending, so we split them into 3 groups of 2 students, which is very ideal because everyone gets to feel ownership of their project. We created some official rules, which are as follows: Using TETRIX pieces, you are to construct a catapult that can launch one of the yellow cubes as far as possible. You are competing against two other catapults for distance. Your distance score is the better of two trials. Design specifications:
You may not cut or drill any pieces for your device. The only exception is that you may cut and drill cardboard for any part of your device. There will be a bonus multiplier of 1.5x for including a CAD model that is dimensioned of your device. The multiplier changes to 2.0x if you also include a quality engineering notebook style documentation of your engineering process. The documentation multiplier is only applied if the CAD multiplier is. You are limited to the materials available in the room. We will not be purchasing materials for this challenge. All building and prototyping must take place on Friday, July 15, during the meeting. Planning and research may take place on Thursday, July 14. We gave the students the rules today, so that they can begin planning and researching. We are meeting from 1pm to 8pm tomorrow, so they will have 6 hours (1pm to 7pm) to build and test, then we'll have a pizza party dinner, then launch at 7:30pm! The students seemed excited. We gave them the last hour from tonight's meeting to get in their groups and start researching. They all huddled up and began looking videos of successful catapults and types of launching mechanisms. I can't wait to see what they create tomorrow!
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