Sustainable Design Challenge - Propeller Car

Gabe Ficklin designed this Propeller Car as a scripted assembly project for MS Fab Lab and Design-Thinking I. This is your starting point. Your group will assemble Gabe's design for a propeller car using a pre-kitted bag of parts; then re-design/modify and build a second car from scratch using sustainable design principles.

Your tools:

• Adobe Illustrator File
• Material Part List (all materials and parts are available in the Fab Lab)
• Step-by-Step Making Instructions (Google Presentation) - also embedded below

Your group will assemble Gabe's design for a propeller car using a pre-kitted bag of parts. Try to have the car go straight down the 1st floor hallway of the 300 Building through the green double door at the end of the hall.

Then, I want your group to repeat this project, but this time you need build your car from scratch, re-designing Gabe's Propeller Car adhering to the following Sustainable Design Principles:

• No adhesive fasteners (put the glue gun away)
• Design for Disassembly
• Plan to return/reuse all parts
• Aspire to performance equal to the Propeller Car your group built without the restrictions of Sustainable Design Principles

This is a Group Project. But your Web Post is an individual effort. Be sure to reflect on how green design principles affected performance, build time, and amount of rework plus trial & error.

Formative Assessment #1 (30 marks) - Web Post - Document Your Building Experience - Can Your Car Hit The Green Door? - web post should include video, 3 making photos, and journal of how your team followed Gabe's step-by-step instructions for the first build from the pre-kitted parts.

Formative Assessment #2 (30 marks) - Build a second version of the propeller car from scratch. Keep track of your parts. The goal is to assemble the car, document it's performance with video and photos, then disassemble the car and return as many of the parts as possible back to the shelf. Your web post should document one of eight Innovation Rubric behaviors (include nominally at least two drawings, storyboards, and/or before/after pictures as supporting evidence of your Innovation Behavior and three supporting evidence bullets describing how you measured up to the Proficient description of the Innovative Behavior.

Summative Assessment #1 (38 marks) - Web Post - Document Your Building Experience Using Sustainable Design Principles - web post should include side-by-side video showing the performance of both cars traveling down the 1st floor Hallway of the 300 Building (10 marks), 3 making photos, (10 marks) and a journal (IB Style - 3 themes/3 bullet items per theme) reflecting on Sustainable Design versus Conventional Design - 18 marks)

Summative Assessment #2 - Web Post (40 marks) - Document 2 Instances of your two strongest behaviors described in the Innovation Rubric (include drawings and photo-documentation plus three supporting evidence bullets for describing each behavior....that is, a total of at least four drawings or photos and six evidence-based bullets in support of your two Innovation Behaviors)