Check out this section each week to meet the classes participating in the 2009 SADC program.
School Name
Richardson Middle School
City and Country
Torrance, Los Angeles County, California
Ages of Students
13 and 14
How Many Students in Your Class
65
Population
145,000
Language(s) Spoken at Your School
English, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Farsi, Armenian, Russian, Arabic, Tagalog, and many more
A Greeting From the Class
Relentless inquiry into all things interesting.
Honeywell Transportation Systems has partnered with the Society of Automotive Engineers International (SAE) to develop the Honeywell/SAE Student Automotive Design Challenge (SADC), which is based on SAE's A World in Motion (AWIM) "Motorized Toy Car" curriculum.
This unique program provides students with an assignment from a mock corporation to research, design, test, and build electric gear driven toy cars. Working in design teams of four, students will be involved in writing proposals, drawing sketches, and working with models to develop a plan to meet a specific set of design requirements based on their market research. Each design team, with guidance from Honeywell Volunteers, will build its own vehicle.
This year the program is being launched simultaneously at eleven schools from eight countries on August 31. More than 400 students will share their work with their international peers via an online forum hosted on this website. The forum will enable teachers, students and volunteers to post pictures of their classes, e-mail each other, and share information about their work.
During the last week of the program, each class will be responsible for selecting the winning vehicle for the class based on set criteria. The winning car from each class will be entered into a global contest with the other schools. The top three winning vehicles will be selected by Honeywell employees through an online survey.
This unique program provides students with an assignment from a mock corporation to research, design, test, and build electric gear driven toy cars. Working in design teams of four, students will be involved in writing proposals, drawing sketches, and working with models to develop a plan to meet a specific set of design requirements based on their market research. Each design team, with guidance from Honeywell Volunteers, will build its own vehicle.
This year the program is being launched simultaneously at eleven schools from eight countries on August 31. More than 400 students will share their work with their international peers via an online forum hosted on this website. The forum will enable teachers, students and volunteers to post pictures of their classes, e-mail each other, and share information about their work.
During the last week of the program, each class will be responsible for selecting the winning vehicle for the class based on set criteria. The winning car from each class will be entered into a global contest with the other schools. The top three winning vehicles will be selected by Honeywell employees through an online survey.
This week students should be working on:
- Honeywell volunteers vote on the top three vehicles
- Winners to be announced
- Answer Question 9 on the Forum: What was your favorite part of the Student Automotive Design Challenge?
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