Manual Drafting (All Students)

     8 week unit strand through both modules

Module Choices – Students will finish 2 modules

Aerospace (Space/Rocketry): Learn about astronauts, planets, gravity, and the sun and moon.   Build a rocket to test outdoors.

Aviation: Fly with Microsoft Flight Simulator software using realistic equipment, and use Paper Airplane Creator.

Computer-Aided Drafting: Use Auto-Cad Light software, creating architectural-type designs on the computer. 

Computer Animation: Pull text, images, and sounds into Animation Works to create digital animated cartoons.

Computer Numerical-Control Mill:  Enter program to control Mill on three axis to cut stock.  Many designs are done including initials and creative project.

Graphic Communication:  After studying ad layout and design, CorelDraw is used to create ads and posters.  A t-shirt design is also created, flipped, and ironed onto a t-shirt.

Motorized Machines:  Lego kits including gears and pulleys are used to build items with moveable parts and motorized objects.

Pneumatics:  An individual activity that includes conducting many experiments using air for power.

Research and Design:  Research the manufacturing of automobiles and create a CO₂  car to race the last week of class.

Robotics:  Program the robot with point to point position format to accomplish tasks, simple to complex.

Structural Engineering:  Learn about the aspects of engineering and what makes things structurally sound.  Build a balsa-wood bridge to test.