Dec 3, 2009 – Scott County High School PLTW Engineering students participated in a boat race, with their PLTW project boats, at the Pavilion in Georgetown, KY.
For their final project, Jean Porter’s Ninth Grade block class of Introduction to Engineering Design chose to design and build single-person boats made out of only cardboard, duct tape, and deck sealant. Using the 12-step engineering design process, students researched the history of great naval disasters to learn what NOT to do, the hydro-dynamic principles for what TO do, and Archimedes Principle to anticipate their design outcomes. They built and tested scale models, mathematical models, and computer models of their boats before building their full-scale final designs. Today, they put their boats in the water and raced them across the pool at the Pavilion in Georgetown.
