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Advanced Engineering 2024-2025
8 projectsThe assignment: You've spent the last two years learning the main pillars of engineering- structures & mechanisms, electronics, and programming. Now put these skills to use in this semester-long project to envision, design, and create an engineering project of your own.
Pedal-Controlled Page Turner
I was inspired to create this project when working on the school musical. I needed a way to turn the pages of my music book without taking my hands off my instrument. I ended up using an Ipad with a digital pedal control, which meant I had to scan all of the pages to get the book onto the Ipad. This made me wonder if I could create a physical page-turning system without relying on the technology I used. That is how I created the design shown on the right, which turns the page hands-free with the press of a pedal! This system consists of the pedal and two motors responsible for the actual page-turning action. One motor curls the page upward, creating a pocket of space for the other motor to flip the page across. This creates a seamless page turn that is repeatable and doesn’t block any line of sight. The book is held to the board by clips, ensuring that the sheet music stays stable for the musician to read. Finally, the unique arm design that holds the page curling motor allows the system to be positioned upright on a music stand while still being able to effectively turn the pages. This system ensures that a musician can play their instrument without worrying about using their hands to turn the page of their sheet music!
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Dreamhouse Dollhouse
For my spring project, I drew inspiration from the dollhouse featured in the show Life in the Barbie Dreamhouse. I was interested in that house because it has so many cool and interactive features that enhance the play experience creatively. I aimed to replicate this concept in my own dollhouse by incorporating interactive elements, such as a fish tank, an elevator, and expandable rooms.
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The DoorDash Doordasher V2
Bringing back the convenience of Doordashing to Athenian Boarding Community and to school campuses. Instead of needing to go pick up your Doordash from the Doordash table, why not have another Dasher deliver it to your home?
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SignSense
SignSense is a tool meant to help people who are attempting to learn sign language independently. Unlike with many verbal languages, there are no programs like Duolingo that can give you real-time feedback on grammar and pronunciation. SignSense aims to confront this problem by using motion sensors that can track the user's movements and send them to a learning program on the user’s computer. More specifically, I used a combination of flex sensors and an absolute orientation sensor attached to a glove to track my movements. Then those sensor values were recorded in a microcontroller and then sent to the program on my computer that creates a 3D model to mimic my hand. The 3D model is to help learners understand what they should be doing with their hands. My hopes for this project are that it makes the prospect of learning sign language less intimidating and therefore increases the number of people learning.
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To the Other Side of the Moon
Current lunar exploration is limited by the bulkiness of traditional wheeled rovers and the Moon’s uneven, rugged terrain. These heavy, wheel-based vehicles struggle to navigate bumpy surfaces and lack agility. But what if a rover could jump over harsh terrain instead of rolling through it? This is where the lightweight lunar jumper robot comes in. By storing elastic potential energy in its flexible materials and releasing it in powerful bursts, the jumper converts this energy into kinetic motion, allowing it to launch across difficult terrain with high acceleration. Thanks to its compact design and light materials, it offers a promising alternative for lunar exploration—one that's farther, faster, and more efficiently.
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Pop-up Camping Shelter
Tallulah Larner makes setting up your tent easier with her Pop-up Camping Shelter
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Autonomous aerial vehicle residential parcel delivery system; aka the airplane
Henry Williams challenges Amazon with his Autonomous Aerial Vehicle Residential Parcel Delivery System
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Functional Scale Model: Scale Model of a Community Sailing Center
This Scale Model is a portable, interactive miniature of the sailing center’s proposed expansion, built to help donors, city officials, and community partners visualize the project. Laser‑cut walls, loft windows, and hidden wiring create a clean “dollhouse” cross‑section, while motor-driven accordion hangar doors and a motorized roof vent make the model more interactive.
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3 projectsThe assignment: You've spent the last 6 months learning the main pillars of engineering- structures & mechanisms, electronics, and programming. Now put these skills to use in this quarter-long project to envision, design, and create an engineering project of your own.
Swerve Drive
Liam Singleton iterates and improves on a small robot drivetrain with his Swerve Drive
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Centrifugal Jet Engine
Held together by tape, thoughts, and prayers, this mock-up resembles what my final product will look like once welded.
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For this project, I wanted to further explore the capabilities of Arduinos and motors. Outside of school, I skateboard and roller skate, so one idea that interested me was to create my own electric roller skates that could be remotely controlled to gradually increase speed and stop. I started by conducting research about existing designs and the types of motors and connections that I could use to achieve something that works. My goal is to have two fully functioning skates that can be controlled with remote controls and change speed gradually with an emergency stop button. As I neared the end of my design journey, I decided to shift the final product from two skates to one longboard. This was more practical due to the large size of the motor and batteries, and how much space would be needed per skate compared to one longboard. In the end, I was successful in creating a transmitter and receiver circuit that would take information from the y-axis and button of a joystick in the transmitter circuit and send the values from 0-180 (0=full speed backwards, 90=stop, 180=full speed forwards) and the button, or emergency stop value, to the receiver circuit. In the receiver circuit, first, the emergency stop value would be read for pressed or not pressed, and if pressed, it would write 90 to the motor, and if not pressed, it would write the y-axis value to the motor.
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5 projects
Tension integrity planter
Planter box that creates the illusion both that the top piece of the table is floating, and that the plant is growing from nowhere.
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Infinite reflection table
Made using plexiglass, this small table (mostly decorative) gives the illusion of an infinitely deep hole that extends into whatever surface the table sits on.
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Roller Coaster Shooting Game
A basic roller coaster made with PVC pipes and wood, as well as a modified laser gun and targets for shooting.
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Nessy
Built for the 2025 FRC Reefscape challenge, this robot features a chassis, intake, elevator, and end effector.
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One Take Golf
One Take Golf is a spin on the classic game of mini golf, but instead of aiming for the lowest possible score, you must beat each level in one shot! Maneuver around obstacles, walls, and much more to see how long of a streak you can get!
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