Snowball Project

We are working hard on our snowball target designs.  Today we wrestled with lots of design and planning questions, such as:

How can we attach bike gears, chains, and a crank to create a moving target?
How can we prevent the wood from rotting and metal from rusting?
What will work better, screws or nails?
How can we build targets that are removable?
How can we improve the stability of targets in our designs?
How can we paint designs that include all members of our school community?
How can we improve safety for all?
How can we use triangles in our designs?

We worked hard answering those questions and more.  We also selected scraps of wood to use for each of the three projects.  We were lucky to receive help from our head of maintenance Todd Keller,  a community member/ UES parent,  and from a UES grandfather.  Tomorrow, Grandpa Bob will help us continue the project. 

I am very impressed with the students' ideas, cooperation, and dedication as they work on this project.