Mouse Trap Car: Day1

Today was our first day of construction on the mousetrap car! Natalia and I started by attempting to remove the wheels from the toy car that we bought, thinking that the wheels would provide and realistic aspect to the car (and also add some speed!) With high hopes we began to take apart the car, hoping to easily take the wheels off, but that is the opposite of what happened. We used a screwdriver, our bare hands, a drill, and even a hammer, but it was very hard (almost impossible!) to separate the wheels from the car, and once we finally did get them separated, we discovered that their was no axel connecting the wheels, and instead some screws! That was upsetting, but we decided to come up with a new plan. Using a wooden stick that we bought at Lowes, we decided to make our own axel for the car my using a drill to drill holes in the wheels, providing a hole to put the stick through. This ultimately will connect our mousetrap car. Although we did not get much done because of the unplanned for difficulties, we are one step closer to creating our mousetrap car!