Classes submit these online on a daily basis during this design phase. Experts will provide online guidance but will not tell students specifics on how to devise their wind tunnel design. Questchat with NASA Experts, student and educator wind tunnel facilitators scheduled during this time. Announcements will be posted to the tunnel-aero list detailing participation procedure. Student teams present and defend wind tunnel designs within own classroom.
Students come to consensus on their best design plan and submit via online web form.
Online interactions focus on evaluating wind tunnel designs. Each classroom team presents their wind tunnel design for critique phase. Students should reach in-class consensus on their BEST wind tunnel design and submit this plan. Local incentives might be used to reward the team which submitted the best design. Guest engineers or local experts might be invited to participate in critique and discussion phase.