Getting started!  Today we met each other, formed teams, and got to work. Our first challenge was called "Coast for the Most." We had to design and build a LEGO car that would coast as far as possible after going down a long ramp. Later, we built vehicles with the goal of constructing them to be as long as possible with the materials each team had. Each pair had to consider design issues dealing with how their vehicle would go down the ramp, and then accommodate their design. We also designed a  three-wheeled vehicle that carried a passenger. From this, we learned good building techniques and how to reduce friction in our cars. This will be helpful when we build our robotic vehicles later in the camp. As you can see, these engineering teams used many different sizes of wheels on their vhicles.