IVVC Drafting & Design Mythbuster Monday- Helping Hand

by Allison K. - Somonauk

Most people would say you can’t make a hand out of cardboard, but the students in IVVC’s Drafting and Design class like to disagree. Each Monday, students participate in a new and different Mythbuster Monday Challenge.

Our challenge this week: Create a helping hand that can transport 3 tennis balls, the container - and the lid for extra credit - across a distance of approximately 7 feet. Students were given cereal box cardboard, tape, and brass fasteners to create their own version of a helping hand. For each challenge the only restriction is the student’s imagination. Just like with every challenge, each student’s design was unique and had its own advantages and downfalls. Some had pivot points, others chose to make a version of a clamp and use friction, and then there are those few that you don’t know what to call their design other than different. Each student tests their prototype and then makes changes based on the results of their experiments.

The places were as follows: 1st Jake J. – Sandwich, 2nd - Ross C. – Sandwich, and in 3rd place was Shayne C. - Plano.