Class Update

Tuesday, March 16th. Yesterday we introduced the STEP project from NCSU that we will be participating in this year. STEP (Sustainable Transportation Education Project) is a pilot program from the Schools of Engineering and Education at NCSU. Students will work in teams of 3-4 to design, build and test battery powered model cars. They will use Solar panel recharging stations to charge the batteries in their cars and do research and testing of their designs to get optimum speed and endurance from their vehicles. On Tuesday we worked in our teams to start the designing and building process. It is a block week schedule this week. I will be gone to Philadelphia for the NSTA (National Science Teachers Association) conference on Thursday and Friday. Tonie Lilley will be my sub and the group will be watching "Kilowatt Ours" a documentary about how electricity is produced in the Southeastern states.