Car Challenge

Car Challenge-Create a basic car using materials given.

Duration: ~60 minutes

Group Members: Malachai Ambroses, Nnamdi Nassor, Jasmine Soria, Kenny Tran

Objective: Build a car using materials provided

Materials:

• 4 CD's
• 1 ruler
• Two skewers
• 1 piece of cardboard
• Rubber bands
• 2 Black Washers
• Binder Clips

Procedures:

1. Brainstorm ideas for car model
2. Gather materials
3. Tape binder clips on cardboard base to create holes for the axes; place one near each corner of the cardboard base and have the holes facing horizontally.
4. Use skewers as axes and insert them through two binder clips that are facing each other horizontally
5. Use CD's as wheels and one CD on each side of the card board through the skewers.
6. Tape on CD's to each side of the skewer.
7. Create a form of activation energy for the car to move such as a slingshot

Analysis: Our group were planning to make the cardboard our base for our car while the skewers were the axes of the car and the CD's were the wheels. We taped the binder clips onto the cardboard and stuck the skewers threw them to create our axles. We secured the skewers onto the binder clips and proceeded to put the CD's through the skewer to create the wheels. We taped the CD's to secure the wheels with a lot of tape.

Conclusion: Our car did not work as well as we thought because the wheels were not tightly secured on the car, the axles kept wiggling, and we had no source of activation energy for our car to move on its own. One thing that went well was that we had an initial model to work with and we made slow progress over time. One thing that could be improved was using our time more wisely and more collaboration and teamwork in the group.