Transportation
Challenge
Participants design, engineer and fabricate an all-terrain vehicle
using battery power capable of transporting a payload over the designated
length of an obstacle course in the least amount of time
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Participants
from Weatherford Middle School and their events. From L-R: Lane
Walker – Transportation Challenge, Dragster Design, Manufacturing
Challenge;
Zack Meyer, Manufacturing Challenge, Dragster Challenge; Chris Ward
– Transportation Challenge, Manufacturing Challenge; and J.D.
Dickey – Marine Design, Challenging Technology Issues.
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Great Mars
Adventure Grant
The projects goals
are to locate water on Mars, land and live there for three years.
The Challenges:
- On Mars there’s little oxygen.
- It takes nine months to get to Mars
- Must live three years there
- Mars travel takes nine months to return to Earth
Jackson Middle School,
technology education instructor James Graham brought 50 students
to the TSA Leadership Conference and demonstrated their project
dome. Modular panels allowed transport in the back of one pickup
and assembly and disassembly in under an hour.
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With the grant money,
the school received a:
-Robot to find water on Mars
-Remote control car to carry the water
-Remote plane fueled by solar power and virtually controlled with
a camera
- Hot air balloon
Each school built geodesic
domes, which included a living section and an air lock space. Jackson
Middle School's Mars base, "Newton," had an air lock space
that was designed so the travelers could also use it as a shower.
Adam is holding the panels during roof assembly. |
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Jackson Middle School
students, Victor, Jessie, and Mario, program the robotic rover.
This project applies
math, science, technology through measurements, CAD animation, design,
manufacturing, mapping and system coordination.
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