Room 15 has been designing and testing some self propelled cars.

Over the last 6 weeks, Rm 15 have been working on designing and creating their own self-propelled cars. Their task was to build a self-propelled car that could drive itself at least 5m.

The had to design a  way to drive their cars without the input of humans. There was a huge variety of designs and ways to propel their vehicles that were successful and some not so successful.

Initially, they had to come up with plans of how their cars would work.  At the end of the 6 weeks, most of the classes designs looked nothing like their final products. Through hours of testing, they had to make a lot of alterations to their designs as their first thoughts didn't actually work. Even on the testing day some of the cars weren't able to drive the distance, so we had to call in the tow trucks.

Overall Room 15 created some awesome cars with a huge variety of ways to propel them. The winning car was Mac Eaton and Shaun Mullings who used 2 balloons to drive a water bottle car. 

What didn't work?   

"The axels and the wheels, we didn’t make them right so they didn’t move". Jesse Coles

What did you change from your first design and why?

"We didn’t have the right materials to make the magnet car so basically we changed everything and made a rubber band powered car". Tahlia Dennison.

"We ended up having several different designs and some worked and some didn't." Mason Walker