Quest Project 2010

The most wicked roller coaster ride at River Ridge Elementary.

This was Jackson's grand entrance for his Quest presentation. As always Aunt Char is a good sport.

If this project were any bigger, we would have had to rent an U Haul.

His Fourth grade project was Roller Coasters.

The Quest students begin working on these 4 months before presentations.

Jacksons research skills still need some tuning but that is what this is all about. His creativity is endless and at some point I had to start saying no, we are not going any further with this project. We are done at this point.

His Papa made the table for him and together they made the mountain and coaster. Since it was so big I just kept it at home and this is where most of the work was completed. As time went on he wanted to keep this project a secret from his other questers. This was giving his Quest teacher heart palpatations but I had Jackson right on schedule.

I have to say that this was the coolest project ever!!!!

And guess what?? Quest is not even for a grade. However, the skills they learn and use are invaluable for life.

Part of the project is making a product that is creative, orignal and able to solve a problem. Jackson came up with his and designed and built with wood out of a dumpster, nails, and a hammer a turn stile for a certain coaster called the Son of Beast. A loop was taken out of this coaster because the weight of the cars needed to complete the loop was breaking the wooden tracks. His turn stile has a scale on it so you could only weigh a certain amount to ride on this coaster and then they could add back in the loop.

The kids went crazy when they saw his project.

His personal interview that he had to do so surprised me. He was so mature and handled the phone call like a business man.

>His presentation was awesome (about 20 mins) so hopefully I can add a little clip of it.

Here are some other projects from the Quest Fair. Allot of time is put into these. The kindergarten ones are not as detailed though.

So proud of Jackson and I have to admit it was hard to put the things in the trash this week but I wasnt setting it up in his room like he wanted.

Larson got the news he had been long waiting for: He was accepted into Quest for next year!

Great now 2 Quest projects.