Illinois Teacher Pits students Against Each Other With 3D Printed CO2 Car Races

[Brian_Krassenstein]

In yet another awesome applications of 3D printing in the classroom, an Illinois high school teacher by the name of Corben White has come up with an awesome idea to teach his students about drafting. He set up a contest in which students had to 3D print their own unique CO2 cars, and then pitted those cars against each other in a race. The students printed out bodies of different shapes, and even wheels for the cars. However the wheels could not be printed out in time, therefore they opted for wheels which were not 3d printed. Best of all everything was printed out from a Reprap printer which the students printed out as well. More details on this story here: http://3dprint.com/4230/3d-printed-co2-car-race/

Check out some of the cars. The red on was the winner of the race: