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Sandy Creek Central School District
STEM skills on display during Hovercraft Project visit
Fifth-graders at Sandy Creek get ready to test their hovercrafts.
Fifth-grade students from Sandy Creek sped around the gym recently as they piloted hovercrafts they helped assemble and test themselves.
The Hovercraft Project, developed by Chase Educational Consulting, visited Sandy Creek and students worked as a team to solve different problems they were presented.
Under the direction of Matthew Chase, who founded the project, fifth-graders were placed in random groups and team members were assigned designated roles.
The full-day experience involved the planning and execution of the working low-friction hovercraft devices.
Communication, teamwork and collaboration were utilized throughout the session as the students worked to build their hovercraft before testing it to see what would get their pilots the farthest distance.
Chase worked closely with team leaders. While not giving away any answers, he guided them in the right direction so that leadership skills and critical thinking could be put to the test.
After the construction was completed, students put the hovercrafts through multiple rounds of testing with different criteria ranging from tight to loose skirt and one pusher to multiple pushers.
Once their findings were concluded, teams raced hovercrafts against each other until one remained and was declared the winner.
The Hovercraft Project is coordinated by the Arts in Education department at the Center for Instruction, Technology & Innovation.
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Matthew Chase, who assists the learners throughout the project, talks with the team leaders during The Hovercraft Project.
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