Montini Engineering

8th Grade - 3 days a week

 

This year's focus is to expose students to an engineering curriculum that emphasizes problem solving skills and team building challenges.  Students will use math, science, and imagination to examine the world around them.  Students will be using the Engineering Design Process to complete projects, which involves asking questions, understanding and following criteria and constraints, brainstorming ideas, designing solutions, building models, testing models, redesigning, modifying models, etc.  The Engineering Design Process is designed to help students understand how engineers solve problems, deal with failure, and continually improve everything around us!

 

8th Grade Projects (This is year 2 of engineering for this group of students)

1. Design & Building Challenges
2. Skyscraper Challenge
3. Pneumatic Project (Using Pressurized Air)
4. Design Inspiration
5. Water Irrigation System
6. Motorized Boats (Designing, Building, & Racing)
7. Sail Boats (Designing, Building, & Racing)
8. Recycling Fair Projects (Design, Build, and Run carnival games made out of only recyclable materials to raise money for our engineering and science program)
9. Simple Machines
10. Pulley Project
11. Design & Build a Building with Many Creative Simple Machines
12. Chair Lift Challenge
13. Spinning Top Design
14. Toxic Popcorn Challenge
15. Lego Engineering Challenges
16. Motorized Design Project
17. Rubber Band Car
18. Mouse Trap Car
19. Crazy Gumball Machine
20. Hydraulic Arm
21. Rocket and Plane Designs & Challenges