Session 6

Session 6

The primary focus of session 6 was to finish marking out planes on foam board and to cut the planes out. For this task student used hot knives. A hot knife is a soldering iron with an exacto blade on the end. We handed these tools to middle school students. Before cutting the class as a whole and each student one on one were given safety insturctions. We set up 4 cutting stations. Once they put on their googles and kevlar gloves students were required to show the teacher how they would cut safely.

This was done by showing standing position and cutting action to the instructor before begining. As each student demonstrated their ability to make a cut that was not directed toward any part of thier body they were set free to cut out thier airplane parts.

Students who were not cutting continued to help mark out airplanes on foam. As you may be able to tell from the large number of photos we also had some volunteer photographers. This group from Piedmont Middle has shown to be a great group of responsible and hard working students.

During the next session we will finish cutting out airframes and begin the basic assembly of the aircraft.