Pine Wood Derby

This year Katherine and Sam are participating in Adventure Princess at the Y. When I was a child it was called Indian Princess but now they are politically correct so it has more of a Frontier theme where the kids are in Settlements rather than Tribes. They have had some fun activities like a camp out and a roller skating party. They also had a Pine Wood Derby. I was so proud of Sam because as an engineer and handy guy he really could have made a fast car. But, the project was supposed to be daughter led and ours was totally let by Katherine. Therefore, we have her car but not a winning car. Katherine chose to make her car into a truck like Daddy's truck. She also wanted it to be a Cinderella truck so it was painted blue with crowns on either door.

Caroline wanted to participate and lucky for us, at the Saturday Home Depot project they gave us a left over from before and it was a race car so she made her own. Here is our final design.
On the day of the race the kids did not actually do much. There was a group of dads who set up the cars and let them go. It was all entered into a computer and not that exciting.
Katherine's truck raced a few times. It never won a heat but it did not lose either. She was proud of it and thought it was cool.

At the end they each get a patch for their vest and a trophy.
Here Katherine is showing off her trophy and car with her good friend Emma.