The Soapbox project
The soapbox project was an all ninth grade project that took up four main categories for group skills, we had: The Philanthropists, The Orators, The Entrepreneurs, and The Engineers. I ended up working as an engineer and so my goal for this project was to make a soapbox car. The original concept of the car used to be a soapbox with wheels that would go down a slanted drag strip during a race and whoever could get there the fastest would win. So what we did was create a car that would be capable of going down a hill using gravity only and we would race. Unfortunately this was a very complicated task, and for the night of the exhibition, only some cars were ready to run. Thus the race was cancelled. But overall we had a very good run and it was a very good challenge for us to work on as a group.
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