Card Board Canoe Challenge!

List of all accomplished Achievements. Total = 13


Criteria & Constraints- Whole objective of the project was to build a boat that will float in the pool using ONLY CARD BOARD AND DUCT TAPE. The boat had to be sturdy enough to go across the pool and back. Also, any cardboard that touched water had to be covered in duct tape so no bits of cardboard would fall off into the pool. 


Sketch Ideas - / Prototype.

                           This is a design that we did not use. We call it the "Cast Away" It would have worked really well and been watertight, but it required too many materials. We wanted something more simple. Included side walls and a rope made of duct tape to pull across the pool.

                            This is the "Pentagon" It had 5, 1 foot tall walls. Pointed to cut through the water and wide for stability. We wanted something a little more creative and new so we made a new design.

                   This was the final design we used and created. We adapted it from the pentagon design, but it had higher side walls and was bigger to allow more weight. Instead of the pointed tip it arched up which made less water enter the inside of the boat. 


 Select an Approach - + High walls
+ Thick layers of Card Board
+ Simple design (practical)
+ Could support a lot of weight and still float
- A lot of tape was needed
- intense labor
- Unpointed tip didn't cut through the water very well
? How to use less tape
? what made it fall apart at the end
! Pointed tip
! Thicker bottom
! More duct tape in all of the layers


Build It!

The Early Bird Gets the Achievement


Our team, Suck My Kayak, built our boat the fastest by far. We had the structure completed by the first week of building. After that, we just covered it in duct tape.


We won all of the test achievements. (5 total)

Generate Feedback. (see "Select an Approach" above) ^

We also created our own achievement which was to put more than one person in that boat at one time. Me and Israel both were in the boat, and even both stood up at one time!