Materials List: Creative Engineering Design:
Efficient Car Design

Each team needs:

  • 5 Popsicle® / hobby sticks
  • masking tape, ~24 inches
  • 4 Lifesavers® mint candies
  • 3 drinking straws (small enough diameter to fit inside the mint candy holes)
  • 3 index cards
  • scissors
  • Efficient Car Design Worksheet, one per student

To share with the entire class:

  • Efficient Car Design PowerPoint
  • rain gutter section(s), ~7 ft in length
  • duct tape (or other heavy duty tape)
  • Optional: laptop and projector, for showing the PowerPoint/Google Slides presentations
  • stopwatch (if racing only one car at a time)
https://www.teachengineering.org/activities/view/ced-2671-efficient-car-design-challenge-activity