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Chaparral
High School Students Study Geometry using Concrete Canoe
In 2014, students at
Chaparral High School (San Dimas,
CA) spent three weeks designing a concrete canoe, using skills they
had learned in geometry class to calculate the volume of geometric shapes,
with geometry teacher Don Cartwright.
Read
more in this article
written by Melissa Masatani for the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. Also, see
other
photos taken by Watchara Phomicinda. Video.
Philips
Exeter Academy Builds Concrete Canoe to National Specifications
In 2011, Michael
Carnivale, long time CNCCC member, started giving guidance to
a team of high school students in the Engineering Club (MecExeter) at
Philips Exeter Academy
on building a concrete canoe. The students built a wooden mold to the
specifications used for the U.S. National Concrete Canoe Competition and
placed their concrete canoe over it.
Students carry their concrete canoe across
campus after successfully performing a float test.
Philips
Exeter Academy is a prep boarding high school in New Hampshire and their
engineering club has over 30 active members ranging
from 9th to 12th graders. The school
offers over 450 courses in a variety of subject areas and is known for its
unique method of teaching called the Harkness table. With each class
composed of a maximum of 13 students, classes are taught around an oval
table where seminar style discussion is encouraged.
Romeo High School Launches
2010 Concrete Canoe
For the second year
in a row, students at Romeo Engineering and Technology Center (RETC)
located in Romeo, Michigan, have proven what appears to be impossible -
design, build and float a canoe made of concrete.
Stephen Figurski and Emery Arnold
(left to right) take their canoe for a spin.
The concrete canoe
project at RETC grew to not only include Craig Bryant's Construction
Trades and Evva Dossin's Drafting classes, but also Aleda Morr's
Math-Science Math Theory and Alice Gryspeerd Biology classes. The concrete
canoe is a cross-curricular project incorporating theories of science,
math, design and construction all in one. Furthermore, students learned
the value of teamwork and communication. You can read more about this
project here.
