A car has to travel at least ten feet to qualify for the prize. It s unusual for a car to go much further than fifteen or twenty feet during the first week of this activity. Therefore, for further motivation, I offer every team whose car travels the entire twenty-five feet of the track on the day of the contest a Snickers bar. The room is charged with excitement throughout the week as the kids design and build their cars, but race day is especially exciting. The teams line up with a variety of car designs.
Every team usually has some unique design to display the character of the team.
There are tricycles, four wheelers, six wheelers, big wheelers, and small wheelers. The boys paint their models with vivid colors or cover them with macho sayings. The girls dress theirs with pretty colors, flowers, and Disney type characters. A real managarie of car designs. Race day is usually pretty festive, like watching a holiday bowl game parade.