Every good project starts with a plan!!!!

The students are quickly learning that it's easy to have big ideas, but harder to make the plans. The key part of that sentence is that the students are learning! Here are some pictures of the design and manufacturing class working on some design components of van. They are making conceptual drawing of the van. what they think the van should look like when it's done. They are also planning things such as; what the interior should look like, the ergonomics of the new dash, and what the new interior panels should look like. This class has a lot to do with dreaming, so it's tuff for me as a teacher to look around the room and see the dreamy looks on the kids faces and not say anything. We spend time looking on the internet at cars, engines and tools; just what every boy wants to do (dream about cars). It's not all fun and games, the students are learning to run a complicated 3D drafting program, they have learned a great deal about hand drafting, and learned just how hard it is to have an original idea.