Glider challenges

1) An image of your completed glider design.

2) Your Glider Challenge: Design Phase notes.

1) What's the challenge?

Make a glider that can fly farthest and have longer hang time than the others

2) Brainstorm solutions:

-What are the rules of brainstorming? (oxymoron)

• Collect as many ideas as possible from all participants
• All ideas are welcome no matter how silly or far out they seem
• Be creative
• The more ideas the best
• Do not criticize or judge

-List your ideas

• Make a plane not a glider.
• Make it small.
• Make it so it will have a lot of wing span. 

3) Specify:

-Criteria

• Use only the provided material
• 1 thick stick about 20 inches long.
• 2 thin sticks about 38 inches long.
• 1 medium stick about 40 in inches long.
• 1 thin piece of paper. 
• Only three days to build it

-Constraints (be specific about materials available)

• Just a few pieces of wood
• Some paper for the wings
• Exacto knife

4) Develop Solutions:

-Sketch (with labels)

-Model in CAD

This is the rough draft of my team's plane.

 

3) Your Glider Challenge: Test Phase notes.

4) Your Glider Challenge competition day results. How did your glider perform? What would you change if we competed again?

• My glider preformed under expectations, but didn't do so bad.
• It was second place in farthest distance.
• It was second place in longest hang time.
• If I could do it again I would:
•  Make it a Glider instead of a normal plane.
•  Add more weight to the front.