Mythbuster Mondays Top 10 Projects
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
IVVC's Drafting & Design class shows off their top 10 Mythbuster Monday projects. Mythbuster Mondays allows the students to try a hands-on approach to projects that require problem-solving skills. The exercises are similar to the types of projects seen on the popular show "Mythbusters." The students watch an episode that relates . . . read more
CO2 Race Cars
By far one of the best and most fun of our Mythbuster Monday projects were the CO2 racecars! The object was to take a CO2 race car kit equipped with axles, wheels, bushings, washers, and of course an angled block of wood for the car and . . . read more
Product Design
Have you ever wondered who is responsible for thinking of all the new technologies you use every day? These special people are called product designers and this is exactly the role that the students of Indian Valley Vocational Center’s . . . read more
Cardboard Frisbee Challenge
The cardboard Frisbee was of my favorite projects so far this year in Drafting. The challenge was to make a Frisbee out of a 12” x12” piece of cardboard. The outside had to remain in the original shape and size of the square, while . . . read more
Mythbuster Mondays
The most exciting day in the Drafting & Design class seems to be Mondays! Below are two students’ perspectives of a project we have done this year. If you would like to see more projects that we do in our class please check out our . . . read more
Interior Room Design Project
This semester in Drafting, one of the main projects was to design a room in a house. For first year students, this meant picking a room out of the house that they are currently designing. For second year students, they picked a room out of . . . read more
Mythbuster Monday - High Rise Structure
IVVC's 2010-2011 Drafting & Design class attempted another Mythbuster Monday challenge by designing, building, and testing a structure that supports a tennis ball while a fan is blowing at it. Materials given were 16 sheets of . . . read more
Monday Mythbusters Challenges
The Drafting & Design class tries out new tasks every Monday relating to the television show Mythbusters. We take on challenges with a limited amount of materials and specific guidelines in place as we compete against each other in our . . . read more
Drafting Does the Penny Slide!
About three weeks ago we completed a group project called the Penny Slide. The project’s guidelines where to build a slide/ramp made out of cardboard and masking tape, that would be able to launch a penny the farthest distance while . . . read more
Students Design and Test CO2 Race Cars
Every week in Drafting and Design our class takes one full day to do the drafting apprentice. The class is split into two teams, The Draftaletes, and Team All We Do Is Win. Our goal was to build two CO2 race cars per team and see who could . . . read more
A Helping Hand
Most people would say you can’t make a hand out of cardboard, but the students in IVVC’s Drafting and Design class like to disagree. Each Monday, students participate in a new and different Mythbuster Monday Challenge. Our . . . read more
Watercraft Challenge
So far this year, the Drafting and Design class has done many projects that need your own unique design and test many different skills. The one that has stuck out to me the most is the penny raft test. The challenge was to create . . . read more
