K'nex Challenge!

On Monday we had a K'nex workshop. We were in teams and we had to start by learning how to use K'nex (although some people had used it before). First we made squares and then cubes.

When we helped each other we could build things much faster!

Then we were given a challenge. We had to design and build a car which would carry someone's shoe down a ramp and across the floor - without the shoe falling off. Everyone had lots of different ways of fastening the shoes and the finished cars were very different in design - but they all met the challenge successfully.

Before we tested the cars we had to show them to everyone and say what they were called, how much they cost to build, and a problem we had when we were making it and how we solved it.

Here is the winning car with its designers. It went almost right across the room.

Here is a slideshow of lot more photos from the challenge.

 

The teachers had their own K'nex challenge after school. They had to build a bridge following a picture in a book and then then had to design and make playground equipment.

 

What do you think of their models?