{"id":1303,"date":"2012-05-19T23:10:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T07:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/sdgc\/cgi-bin\/ycisl\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2015-06-14T09:56:24","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T17:56:24","slug":"design-challenge-paper-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/?p=1303","title":{"rendered":"Design Challenge: Paper Planes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In today’s WSJ (Thursday May 17, 2012), there is an article titled “Paper Plane Champ Watches His Record Fly, Fly Away” about a controversy in the competitive paper plane world. This reminded me of a time someone suggested that a paper plane exercise could serve as a basis for a YCISL exercise.<\/p>\n

The article mentions an iPad app – which I have downloaded. The base version of the app shows how to fold three types of paper planes: Stunt (flips), Dart (distance), Eagle (hang time).<\/p>\n

This also reminds me of a scene where kids throw paper planes off a building where the paper has something written in it.<\/p>\n

I am thinking that we would use such an exercise for younger students, or perhaps a preview event. Three attempts? Three paper planes? Team or individual?<\/p>\n

Could we use recycled material for this exercise? Would newspaper work? Could we use aluminum foil that has been used previously in the chute exercise?<\/p>\n

Perhaps as a parallel type exercise, students could design a trebuchet or crossbow or a stomp rocket or a finger blaster or a mentor rocket (reminder, use eye protection).<\/p>\n

Could this be set up as a fundraising competition (like a walkathon) where a person is sponsored by the number of paper airplanes made or the time a plane hangs in the air or the distance it flies?<\/p>\n

Article link:\u00a0http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702303879604577408194095860860.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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