So my squadron commander out of the blue hands me some AEX books and says "make this happen"! As stressful as this may sound, I was up for a challenge. Upon looking over the activities, I started to wonder what other projects I could come up with. Some of the projects seemed way to boring like "make a paper airplane". Any ideas?
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Remember your target audiance.
Paper airplanes may be boring for you....but what about your cadets/seniors?
If it is going to be boring for them....then my all means move to the other activities or find something else.
"Make a paper airplane" may be boring. "Make a paper airplane that can glide the farthest/fly the straigtest line/etc" is not. Particularly if you have time for multiple design attempts. We did that. The cadets had a blast! They were not satisified with winning by a half inch or an inch. They wanted to wing by feet - make sure there was no room for error. IIRC, each cadet had four or five designs that evolved as they went.
Possible suggestion from Wired Magazine, http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Build_Your_Own_War_Bot#Unmanned_Aerial_Vehicles. (http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Build_Your_Own_War_Bot#Unmanned_Aerial_Vehicles.)
We built a wind tunnel and tested the effectiveness of each cadet's handcrafted foam wing. It proved to be fun, out of the ordinary, and a good learning experience.