Contact cities in Japan and arrange for contests and intereaction of students of both cultures. Interview a local Japanese immigrant about kite flying in Japan. The stimulus to invention and original thinking could be a great outcome of this activity. Growing up in a rural community where people mended stuff that broke and made tools and even machines to lighten ordinary drudgery was a way of life. That part of daily life is largely gone.
Time is more precious than money now, and a good thing, too.
Designing new designs, altering existing designs, or repairing old kites could be rewarding and stimulating. Making instructional and informative taped presentations through communications classes. Mass production, distribution, sales, packaging, and assembly line techniques may be investigated. A stringer winder could be used to investigate these parts of technology education. Kites can be tied to wind and weather study and line strength calculations.