Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Cardboard Boats

As a final project for my Physics class, we built boats out of cardboard boxes. On the last day of school, we "raced" them in the pool. (Only a few actually made it across the pool and back.) I came up with the idea of covering my boat with cereal boxes. It seemed to me that they would be more waterproof than a corrugated cardboard box would be. During the race it was hard to tell if the boxes were keeping the water out or not. As it turns out my boat was very unstable and I ended up tipping over before the water seeped through. Even with my disappointing ending I still had a good time, as I'm sure everyone else did. You can see parts of the race in the video clip below.