Welcome to the Bancroft-Rosalie Power Drive Blog! This blog was started because here at B-R we are all about Power Drive. This year the Power Drive team is hard at work designing a new car for competition. The Power Drive team recently raced at Wayne and got 5th, but like any competitive team we don’t like finishing in 5th. So this week the team is working hard to find a good design for a new car. In order to do that the class is making wooden models of their very own design. To start the process, Mr. Smith had his students make designs on paper of their ideas for a new model. The class took about a day or two to get their ideas on paper. “The results came out pretty well as we found some good designs and I liked a lot of the ideas and think they could work really well.” said Mr. Smith. After the class discussed everyone’s ideas they are now making a wooden model. The students will build their models to a scale of two inches equals one foot and are in the process of carving the models out. The class will test the models in the wind tunnel to test the drag and aerodynamics of the car to see which one is suitable to race. I will have a new blog each week to keep you in touch with what is going on in the class and the other exciting events the team will participate in.
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