The Great Gummi SailCar Challenge

 

Congratulations! Youčre an engineering team working at GummyGuys'n'Gals, Inc. You have been given a breezy task.  Read on to find out the details...

 

                    BACKGROUND

Seattle is great for water fun.  On the coastline and full of lakes, the city has a large number of ports and docks for all kinds of water vehicles. Sadly, Gummi Bears have a hard time with water – they melt away or bloat up!  In order to have the same opportunities for fun on dry, safe ground, the Gummi Sailor-Wannabe Club commissions you to design and build a sailing car to take advantage of those breezy, sunny, Seattle Summers.

 

CHALLENGE

Make a Bear SailCar to hold as many Gummi sailors as far as possible with 10 seconds of wind

 

                                                GUIDELINES

Your Team Design Presentation Should:

-Include each person speaking

-Announce the name for your Bear SailCar

-Discuss how your team arrived at your design

 

Your Gummi SailCar Should:

-Be made only of provided materials

-Move with wind power (provided by 1 team member, who can move with the car to be close to the sail)

-Be touched only to upright the car (in case of a tip-over) or to reposition the car (in case of a spin-out)

 

 

LEAD Technologies Inc. V1.01MATERIALS PER TEAM

-Gummi Bear Sailor-Wannabes

-Ten (10) drinking straws

-Four (4) wooden beads

-One (1) deck playing cards

Oval Callout: Good Luck! Wečre so excited for the test ride!

 
 
-One (1) sheet 8 1/2 x 11-inch paper

-Two (2) rolls of tape

-Three (3) pairs of scissors