9th grade designer Ron Kullashi was tasked with creating the ideal bedroom for a fictional five year old child. His room includes built in storage cubbies and a ball pit!

11th grader Liam Benten has imagined a design for a subway tunnel for quick transport. He draws inspiration from actual tunnels, which he tours and measures to make his designs to scale.

12th grade engineers Aaron Bacall, Harrison Metrick, Nate Doldron, and Trevor Kim planned and built a truss bridge structure that was able to support a whopping 56 textbooks (around 110 lbs). This was the winning bridge of all classes!

9th grade team (Gavin Alder and Luca Cardenas) test the limits of their build. Their bridge held the most weight of the 9th grade teams and was under budget!

10th grade teammates Grey Golus and Aidan Laurence connected a simple motor to a power source and made a marble-dumping mechanism. This humble marble continues on to knock a thumbtack, popping a balloon!

12th graders Jake Adair, Nataly Davidson, and Logan Kim devised a Rube machine that is also an interactive game. A player drops a marble at the starting position, then the marble falls through one of 3 tracks and collects points.

9th grade filmmaker Jacob Palmer formed a clay racetrack to serve as the setting for his claymation movie. Jacob's story has many twists and turns, including a devastating crash and destruction of the track!

10th graders Ana Burkard and Matthew Varela collaborated on an epic love story, told in the form of object stop-motion. Drawing inspiration from the film "Coraline", Ana and Matthew chose small dolls as their main characters.

Kai Hong fits his trailer with an axel and wheels alongside his 9th grade class. His design is inspired by the "teardrop" shaped campers that became popular in the 1940's.

9th grader Luca de Càrdenas adds color to his design. Luca's camper is fitted with a model propane tank and a hinged door, complete with a mini doorknob!

10th grade coder Ariel Voskresensky holds up his latest build. The Arduino control board, connected to an external breadboard which holds a small speaker, is programmed to emit sounds in response to a tilt sensor.

A close up look at the Arduino board shows an array of LEDs, poised to light at the programmer's command. LEDs can be triggered by sensors, intervals of time, pushbuttons; whatever one desires!

Photo courtesy of Arduino Classroom CTC 101 Kit

This is the prototype for which our 10th grade students based their vehicles on. A 3V DC motor turns a gear train, which spins the back axel.

While our students were provided with rectangular plastic bodies to mount their wheels and motors on, the possibilities for solar vehicles are endless!