This class will teach your child the engineering design process and will encourage, not control the designs for individual students. The teacher gives a challenge, gives some open-ended suggestions and asks lots of encouraging questions without "giving the answer". This method encourages outside of the box thinking and allows students to be creative and try and fail without feeling a sense of failure. Failure is a part of learning and will be taught as a way to learn and improve designs. 
This camp will focus on building Land Yachts and learning the Engineering Design Process in order to organize their thinking, designing, building and testing.

There is some competitiveness that will naturally arise, but the teacher will encourage students to redesign to improve their designs. The arts are included as the teacher will refer to the importance of the attractiveness of design in the real world.

Day 1: Introduction to the Engineering Design Process, vocabulary development, introduction of the design challenge.
Day 2: Group discussion and presentation of designs, building of prototypes and beginning testing of prototypes.
Day 3: Redesign and retesting of prototypes and evaluation and justification of designs.