In this course students become acquainted with the ways of the Internet. Students in this course are taught how to create, modify, edit, and design digital media. Students work individually and in groups to ultimately construct a substantial web site on a given topic of their choice. In this course students learn the fundamentals of aerodynamics and how they function in airplane design. Students gain first hand experience by constructing various airplane designs that illustrate the principles of flight.
Students begin by constructing sextants and learning about lighter than air flight.
Next they learn about controlled flight by constructing functional paper airplanes that teach them about the basics of aerodynamics and how flight is controlled. Students use this information and experience as they then construct a balsa wood glider from nothing more than their own knowledge and a limited number of balsa wood sheets. In each project, students gain hands-on experience in the Industrial Design process used in all professional technology fields. By integrating language arts, science and math skills with the individual steps in the Industrial Design process, students will learn about such things as beam stress, load, friction, payload, prototypes and torque to mention a portion of the content material. In Structural Engineering, student design and build truss frame balsa wood bridges which are stress tested in a school-wide competition.