As the students design, build and decorate miniature cars for the race, they develop the practical and creative thinking skills needed to solve design problems. During the design phase, they can type the description of the car they want to build into Adobe Express and generate an image of the car they imagined. They can also upload their own sketch into Photoshop and use AI to generate a 3D image showing realistic images of the car from every angle. Once they’ve finalized their design, they can make their cars from wood or create them from resin using one of our 3D printers. The project comes to an exciting climax when the students race their cars on a timed track in front of a crowd of cheering spectators and receive feedback from enthusiastic judges.

Read more from the 2023/24 Year in Review here.