Design It Yourself: Design a Chair Lift out of Everyday Materials
Aerial Lift, Cable, Constraints, Criteria, Chair Lift, Engineers, Engineering Design Process, Engineering Habits of Mind (EHM), Iteration, Loading Efficiency, Prototype, Safety Features
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Middle School (13 to 15 years old)
Design It Yourself: Design a Chair Lift out of Everyday Materials
Design Challenge
You’re a team of engineers given the challenge of designing and building a chair lift out of everyday materials. The chair lift must carry a ping pong ball up a rope/wire line from the valley to the mountain and back down from the mountain to the valley without the ball falling out of the chair.
