Race 2 Achieve final race.

Today there was a k to 12 assembly in the Gym where the councilor gave a talk about it being red ribbon week.  When he was done, I got to have my students race their mousetrap racers.  I even had one student who redid her race car because it kept traveling to the right.  We ended up having two runs.  Unfortunately, none of the race cars made it all the way to the finish line.  Several of them lost wheels during the run.  So after a short intermission where I told the kids they didn't cheer loud enough, the students fixed the wheels.  During the second run, only one made it across the line in about 11.5 seconds.  He was thrilled he won but kind of upset his car was 3 seconds slower than during practice.  The whole school had a blast and we awarded the winner a medal.  As soon as I can grab a couple of pictures from the tech dept, I will post them
This was an awesome experience and if you can do this with your students, I think it is well worth using it.

Race 2 achieve

I started race 2 achieve unit that was provided free of charge by the National Guard.  This is awesome because I chose the set for trigonometry and I am doing it with my students.  The students are currently finishing up the cars so we can race them down the hall.  We will do time trials and then work our way through the rest of the unit till we have modified the cars so they run better. 

This is what the car looks like when finished. They are still working on operating them but they are working and helping each other to create the cars.  So far this is great because they are all involved in it.  If we don't run trials today, we will run them tomorrow.  This is a great math project and fulfills STEM requirements.