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Engineering Club

Building for the Future

June 2003

The Engineering Club has been reformed under the direction of Mr. Gerstman. All interested students are invited to the meetings in rm. 353, on the last Monday of each month, after school. The club welcomes donations of parts and supplies such as glue, blasa wood, foam board, small pulleys, motors, etc. Mr. Gerstman and Mr. Ballash are also looking for donations for prizes for winning student projects. The club hopes to hold 4-6 student competitions the first year, and award prizes for the first three top student projects. Possible projects include:

• Solar Car Race
• Solar Ovens and the Solar Ovens Society (See also "Cookstoves...", Scientific American, July, 1995, pg. 72)
• Catapult Distance and Accuracy. (See Scientific American, July, 1995, pg. 66 and the Catapult Museum)
• Bottle Rocket Distance and Accuracy
• Bridge building (see West Point Contest, http://bridgecontest.usma.edu)
  
• Popsicle Bridge Support, see also the West Point Bridge Design Contest, http://bridgecontest.usma.edu.
• Spagetti Tower Height
• Paper Glider Distance and Accuracy
• Mouse Trap Car Distance
• Machine to Separate Four Compounds
• Density Boats
• Rube Goldberg Machine
• Wing Lift--Wind Tunnel Competition
• CO2 Cars
• Egg Drop
• Mapping Competition
• Triple-Point Cell (See Scientific American, February, 1999, pg. 98)
• Kitchen Centrifuge (See Scientific American, January, 1998, pg. 102)
• Detecting "Hot" Clouds (See Scientific American, April, 1999, pg. 120)
• Microscopic View of Crystals (See Scientific American, May, 1999, pg. 94)
• High-Precision Thermometer (See Scientific American, March, 1999, pg. 102)
• Floating Ocean Monitor (See Scientific American, November, 1998, pg. 112)
• Monitoring the Earth's Magnetism (See Scientific American, January, 1999, pg. 106)