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Air Supply
Air Supply
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Design a vehicle that flies and can carry their weight of 3 dirham coins across a room.
DUE: Before the next D&I class next week
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Quick View
Team 1 is stranded on the dark side of Mars. YOU have to design a way to safely drop supplies from the air!
Team 2 is designing a supply drop to get them food and medicine.
You must design a vehicle that can fly in order to deliver the cargo. Your vehicle must support the weight of 3 dirham coins.
Step 1: Review the Empathy and Define steps
Step 1: Review the Empathy and Define steps
5 min
5 min
Step 2 Brainstorm: 20 min
Step 2 Brainstorm: 20 min
Step 3 Prototype: 10 min
Step 3 Prototype: 10 min
Step 4 Built & Test: 30 -60 min
Step 4 Built & Test: 30 -60 min
Remember - Innovators Never Copy!
Remember - Innovators Never Copy!
You can improve by observing what can be better, then adding, or changing something to make it your own!
These are just for support and ideas.... nothing more.
Video Resources
Video Resources
These videos are here to help you generate ideas only, please don't copy these projects, but use them to design your own.
*** NO ADDITIONAL VIDEO RESOURCES FOR THIS PROJECT ***
Video Walkthrough
Video Walkthrough
Picture Walkthrough
Picture Walkthrough
1. Empathy & Define
1. Empathy & Define
Choose different methods of dropping your supplies and complete the sentence.
2. Ideate (Brainstorm)
2. Ideate (Brainstorm)
As fast as you can, brainstorm different ideas!
*** Remember: The goal at this stage is to come up with AS MANY IDEAS AS YOUR CAN, not to take timing planning what you will build!
Feel free to print many pages, use scrap paper, or digitally draw as much as you can.
4. Prototype
4. Prototype
Build!
Insert photographs of the best design you chose to build from the many brainstorms you sketched out.
5. Test
5. Test
Does your design .... DO what is it supposed to DO?
Post a picture of your design being used.
Ready to get started?
Ready to get started?
- Print the PDF copy of the plan (not required)
2. Research flight and air resistance
3. Brainstorm MANY ideas as FAST as you can.
4. Choose your 2 best ideas, polish, tweak, and improve the plans then BUILD them.
5. Test your designs and record data.
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