Over the course of my high school career I spent countless hours working in the Engineering Department of my school. At least half of the many hours that I spent in these classes I was working with a group to complete various projects and tasks assigned by our teacher. I can recall a project, in my Principles of Engineering class, where we had to design a self-propelled car. In this project my partner and I were presented with various design challenges; one of these such challenges stated that we could only use two wheels in our car or else we would be deducted points. After a brainstorming session my partner and I settled on my idea where we used two CDs as wheels and a mousetrap to provide the necessary momentum to move the vehicle forward.
