Go+Karts


 * Go Karts**


 * THIS IS NOT AN OPTION. IT IS INCLUDED AS A VISUAL OF THE DISCUSSION WE HAD IN CLASS.**

What It Is: A shopping cart that can speed down aisles at 37 mph **Time:** 3 hours a week for six months **Cost:** $150

**"Most kids our age** are playing video games," says Riley Walker, 18, "but we had a cart, we had a motor and we saw a fun thing." While waiting for parts for their high school shop projects--Walker restored a 1950 Dodge Wayfarer and classmate Michael Pallot, 20, turned a 1991 Ford Festiva into a race car--the students joined the motor from a Honda lawnmower to a grocery cart discarded on the grounds of their school, in British Columbia. How does she ride? Bumpy, since there's no suspension. And so quick, thanks to the bulk-free frame, that they installed a kill switch after taking a few diggers. The duo, who have since graduated, bought the brakes from a lawnmower supply shop and salvaged the rest of the parts from old mowers and bicycles. They used 7/8-in.-dia. steel tubing to machine a steering system, styled after an airplane's yoke, as well as a wheelie bar to keep the cart from flipping backward during its rapid acceleration. A car stereo system proved too bulky to be practical, but with three gears and a cupholder, the vehicle is finally road-ready--or at least ready for the drive-thru lane at the local McDonald's.

IDEAS Video of basic assembly of a kart

Bikes

Simple Idea

TED Talks Inventions by Dennis Hong media type="custom" key="5862355"

Go Kart Document

PBS Two part programming on Go Karts. Part I

Part II

This is your opportunity to describe the learning process you went through as you worked with your team to build your Go-Kart. Be sure to describe your thoughts in these specific areas:
 * Assessment Survey: **


 * **Collaboration:** How well did the flow between you and your team members go? Did you support each other in the learning process? What did you learn from your teammate?
 * **Leadership:** Did you know when to step up and take charge and when to take a back seat and let someone else lead? Was the balance of power equitable? How will this serve you in the future?
 * **Mathematics:** Did you apply any mathematical skills? Did you have to measure, plan, design, discuss your plans before you began building? How can you see a project like this applying to anything you do in your future? (Not that you will ever build another Go-Kart but the SKILLS that you acquired in doing this project).
 * **Problem Solving:** How well did you and your team problem solve. (Hint: you had to do it every step of the way!) Describe what this was like as opposed to following step by step directions or a store bought model with directions.

Find the survey here: Go Karts

**FINAL SELF-ASSESSMENT**:


 * Learning and growing means no one has to tell you how hard to work.
 *  You set personal goals for yourself to succeed or you don't.
 *  __Your task is to evaluate how hard you worked on your project.__
 *  If you could give yourself an honest grade what would it be?
 *  Failure Counts as Done!

Complete this survey: Self-Assessment