MEKA

Team Members: (First Names Only) Michelle, Elisabeth, Katie, Anthony =MEKA= i ---l -a- n c-- i- t- t h --s- i- h e-- a-e- o l ---b n l ---e--- e e --t y -h April 27th Katie, Elisabeth, and Anthony went to test our car to see how fast it goes, and to see if it would work. 24 second was the time that it took in 20 meters. (that's sad) We are now working on the solar panel and we are thinking that we are going to put foil up on the sides so it would reflect the sun to the panel. Katie and Elisabeth are putting more rubber bands on the tires. Katie just burnt herself. The gear isn't working. By: Michelle

April something Our car looks like an overweight crayon. By: Elisabeth

April 29th We're redoing the car. We trimmed the axles so that we didn't have an inch and a half of metal sticking out on the sides, we took off the white pointy thing on the front of the car, we added two magnolia leaves onto the front of the car so it would be 40 cm long, we took off the two sticks in the middle and put one 1/2 width stick on instead, trimmed the sides, and put smaller eyelet holes on (our old ones were too big for the regulations). It doesn't look like an overweight crayon anymore. Now it looks like a bug car. Yippee. By: Elisabeth

April 30th Today we cut out more of the middle of the car out to make it lighter, and we took the glue off the gear and back wheels. We also took off the magnolia leaves. It doesn't look like a bug car anymore, but it now looks like some sort of apron on wheels. By: Elisabeth

May 3 Took our car totally apart...again. trying for a new design that is thinner and lighter. By: Katie

May 4th The new car was a total failure so we put our old car back together, with a few minor changes. We cut the body thinner and took off some of the extra wood and clipped our axles to try and lighten the weight. Started working on the solar charging station, mostly the platform. We researched the angles of the sun and figured our thaat for our batteries to work bets we have to build our platform at a 15 degree angle facing south. By: Katie

May 10th Our car went about two feet on its test run before it took such a violent turn that it was unable to move anymore. We created out solar charging station and added a tinfoil piece on the end of it at the upper end of the 15 degee angle. By: Katie & Elisabeth

May 11th Today we took off the front wheels of our car so we could try and straighten out the axle, so we can try and fix our turning problem. We also made the wheels more stable and added extra support. We added design sketches and a cover page to our car notebook. By: Katie

May 12th The race is tomorrow. We're going to fail. Last time we ran the car, it got about two feet, then the fishing line came out of the front eyelet so that turned left so hard that it couldn't keep going. You can tell we have such a good chance of winning the race. Yeah, right. Our new plan to keep the line in the eyelets is to open them enough to get the line in, then close them so that the line can't get out. Maybe it'll work. Probably it won't. We're going to go test it...