Our ward recently had a pinewood derby where adults could participate with no rules. Matt was so excited. He thought about how he could make his car the fastest for like 3 weeks. He worked on it in the man room.
And in the kitchen. And the living room too. He even made three trips to the hobby store to buy different sized propellers. His plan was to put a little motor on it and a propeller to make it super speedy.
He even worked on it at the church! He had all the kids captivated by his "jet booster rocket car" as one kid called it. I missed getting a picture of all the kids who were surrounding him...at one point there were like 6 of them all gathered around staring in awe.
He had the adults captivated too.
They did a few testing things before the race actually started to make sure the car would fit under the finish line. The lady (who had a fe-mullet, by the way) that was running the track was very insistent that she would not let him race if it was too tall. The propeller ended up hitting the finish line, but it didn't do any damage...except to the fe-mullet lady who was mad and gave Matt a disapproving glance.
Anyway, all his hard work paid off. He won!!! He also won the least attractive car award, which was really funny.
It was fun watching him get so into his car design and have so much fun with it. And I'm glad he won.
Our ward recently had a pinewood derby where adults could participate with no rules. Matt was so excited. He thought about how he could make his car the fastest for like 3 weeks. He worked on it in the man room.
And in the kitchen. And the living room too. He even made three trips to the hobby store to buy different sized propellers. His plan was to put a little motor on it and a propeller to make it super speedy.
He even worked on it at the church! He had all the kids captivated by his "jet booster rocket car" as one kid called it. I missed getting a picture of all the kids who were surrounding him...at one point there were like 6 of them all gathered around staring in awe.
He had the adults captivated too.
They did a few testing things before the race actually started to make sure the car would fit under the finish line. The lady (who had a fe-mullet, by the way) that was running the track was very insistent that she would not let him race if it was too tall. The propeller ended up hitting the finish line, but it didn't do any damage...except to the fe-mullet lady who was mad and gave Matt a disapproving glance.
Anyway, all his hard work paid off. He won!!! He also won the least attractive car award, which was really funny.
It was fun watching him get so into his car design and have so much fun with it. And I'm glad he won.
2 comments:
I didn't realize he was an enginerd. That's awesome. And it is pretty unattractive.
Aah, Christy, I can so relate! Congrats Matt!
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