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Design and Creation

Dylan: For my mouse trap car I decided to have two moue traps on one car. When I was making the car I started to realize that it might not work. When it was one class before the race day, I tried running it and it didn't work. In all I had a pretty fun time making the car, even though it did not work out. In the future I will know not to make the same design that I made.

Kohei: My mouse car has two mouse traps on it. At the beginning I noticed that there was not much point in putting two mouse traps on 1 car. It only made me have a hard time winding the strings. I think that I used the most glue gun, since I had to glue the part where the most power is put in. At the race, my car did not work as I thought it would be. When I tried it outside, it worked really good, but as soon as I do it on the carpet, it did not move. A lot of other people had many unique ideas and it was very interesting. I really liked making the mouse trap cars.

Chris J: What my  car looked like or was like was a normal car. I just got a piece of block and added some wood. I drilled holes for the holes and put metal bars in it. Mine went the furthest although it looked the crudest. Also when ever I went outside for testing it did not work as well as the rug inside. Generally making mouse trap cars was fun although I know there will be better stuff to do further on at class :). P.S my car went almost 6meters D >.< C.

Chris K: I really liked the project we did this time. We made cars made of wood, mouse traps, wheels, string, and 2 medal bars. I thought making these cars would be complicated and hard but I found out that it was easy making this car. We got to design the car to what ever shaped we wanted and we had to use our own ideas to make our own original car. My car came out to be a pretty decent one that came second in the distance heat. I was impressed by how well these cars worked. I really enjoyed this project and would like to make another one.

Taylor: We had three competitions design, speed, and distance. I tried to make a mousetrap car with two mouse traps on them and they didn't work so I got to be judge for the three competitions and it was a lot of fun. My car won design even though that it didn't work. I couldn't find out why it didn't work even Mr. Mikton couldn't figure it out. I had a lot of fun with it and I think everyone one else had a lot of fun too. It was hard to find a design and stick with it. You really had to use your brain into the thinking a lot. There was no instructions so you had to figure out how it works by yourself.

Hilo: My car look really weird, but it went really fast (It didn't go so far). It was a normal car other than it had something that looked like a horn. When I tested it, It worked better on flat surfaces (plaza) and it didn't go so good on carpet. I think that the car worked better on flat  surfaces because the surface boosted the speed (It slips better). I think that it didn't work so well on the carpet because it carpet is kind of bumpy and its pretty soft. During the speed competition (on the carpet), my car flipped over and it didn't go so far. Overall I really enjoyed this project.:

Pages maintained by jerwin@asij.ac.jp  Original Course Design John Mikton & Derrel Fincher  Course Facilitation: jerwin@asij.ac.jp Monday August 29, 2005