Tuesday 30 June 2020

Our go-cart by Jack and Liam

We have been making a go-cart during open door Friday this year.
First, we got cupboard boxes and we stuck them together with highlighted yellow stickers.
Stan and Cal helped us.
Then we went outside and tested the go-cart to see how strong it was. 
We climbed up the tower and chucked it down onto the ground.
It stayed in one piece.
Then we went to the smaller monkey bars and launched it.
 The go-cart survived.
After that, we made a plan for what to do next. We made a list of what we needed and we planned how the wheels would go onto the wood.

After we got the pieces of wood we cut them to the right size.
We screwed the wheel brackets onto the wood and we screwed the long planks on.
Then we measured the wood to check it was the right length for the cupboard boxes.
We were trying to make the go-cart strong so we could sit in it.


Coby came over to help us and we hammered and drilled pieces onto the gocart.

We even tested the go-cart on the hill to see if it would hold together. 

Then we tested it to see if it could hold someone.















To make the cardboard part stronger we tried to cut a wooden base. 
Finally we tested the go-cart with the box on but the wheels  kept moving around and the bolts came off because the wood split.  It's back to the drawing board to see if we can come up with a new plan to try and fix it.

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