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High School Students Take on Wing Redesign Challenge
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Rudolph, Robert – Tech Directions, 2010
Taking part in the United States Department of Energy's Real World Design Challenge (RWDC), the author describes how four technology education students at Cumberland Valley High School in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, took on the challenge to redesign an aircraft wing, attempting to make it more efficient than one currently in operation. The…
Descriptors: World Problems, Engineering, Technology Education, High School Students
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Fay, Glenn, Jr. – Science Teacher, 2006
The National Research Council has suggested that science classes need to become more active and authentic. To help with this effort, Thayer Model Engineering was created several years ago as an inquiry science course at Champlain Valley Union High School in Hinesburg, Vermont. In this school, the students apply the Thayer Model--a four-step…
Descriptors: Models, Local Issues, Science Education, High School Students