The crowd goes wild with excitement as the boats speed through the water until the paddle control unwinds.
Seventh- and eighth-graders at Buena Vista Adventist School spent many hours with teacher Scott Spies carefully crafting wind-up boats for a science project.
With this creative science project, students first created blueprints and learned science concepts such as drag, displacement, and friction along with learning the parts of the boat such as the keel, rudder, hull, bow and stern.
The boat race finale in a 6-foot pool made this a memorable science project.
Buena Vista student Emily Fletcher proudly holds her wind-up boat, which won grand prize.
Teacher Scott Spies watches as Buena Vista principal Ron Trautwein gives the starting mark for boat racers Emily Fletcher and Silas Fiedler. Fletcher took first place, while Fiedler took second place.
Anin Shepherd and Brian Moench release their wind-up boats. The boat race was part of a science project at Buena Vista Adventist School.
