Author: Julia Medina

How fast is your boat now? What was your total time? Did you make a change that made it faster? Can you make more changes like that? What else can you change to improve the speed?

Use this space to record all the data you collected about your Search & Rescue Mission.

Upload a picture showing how you are testing your speedy ship. Be sure your picture shows changes you made in your boat design.

We may share your boat picture with other people if we think that they can learn from your process or your design. Your boat may be famous!!

Like many other engineers, you are working hard to improve these designs. Making changes to a plan is how we create the best designs. Please upload a screenshot of your NEW ship after you redesign it in the drydock.

(You can receive up to two more 15-point badges for your Search & Rescue Mission plans. You must go through the process 3 times to receive all 3 badges.)

After you complete this step move on to Testing Your Ship!

Engineers use data to improve designs while they test. Upload a picture of the data you just collected from your first test.

Now you have great data! Some data you found may not be numbers. It may be how the boat felt when it was turning. Or, how the waves pushed the boat. You could also time the amount of time it took to rescue 2 people in the helicopter and compare it to using the rescue boat.

There is lots of data, and all of it is important!

Use all the data you have to improve your boat’s plan. You can click here to upload a new plan for your speedy ship.

You can upload a table or graph of your data here. Think about how your data has changed since you started. Do you collect new types of data? Do you think someone else could read your data and know what it means? Engineers use data to show why they make changes. You can collect and use data for all types of designs!

Think about what worked well for getting this data. You can use those strategies again for the next challenge!

Share one more picture of your testing. This final picture should highlight some of the changes you made since your first design. Is the bottom wider? Is your top taller? If so, show how your ship looks and emphasize those changes. We want to see how much problem solving you have been doing!!

By now, we hope you are having fun changing and testing your boat. Keep going forward! If you want to send us more pictures, you can tag us on Facebook, connect on Instagram, or simply upload another picture on this website.

Thanks for working so hard! You are engineering very well. Time for one more data badge.

This is the last time you can earn a Planning Badge, but please don’t let that stop you from making more changes!! Keep thinking of ways to make your ship fast, rescue people better, and lose less points. You want to climb this leaderboard!

Upload a sketch of your latest design.

We hope it is becoming easy to draw and create these designs. Continue making designs clear and useful!

Upload a picture showing how you are testing your lifesaving ship. Be sure your picture shows changes you made in your boat design.

We may share your boat picture with other people if we think that they can learn from your process or your design. Your boat may be famous!!

Like many other engineers, you are working hard to improve these designs. Making changes to a plan is how we create the best designs. Please upload a screenshot of your NEW ship after you redesign it in the drydock.

(You can receive up to two more 15-point badges for your Speed Test plans. You must go through the process 3 times to receive all 3 badges.)

After you complete this step move on to Testing Your Ship!