Real Knot-Tying Skills
Students learn real knot-tying, lashing, and pioneering skills by building functional structures such as tripods, ladders, swings, bridges, and human-weight supports. Through hands-on engineering challenges, students apply concepts such as force transfer, stability, proportionality, criteria, constraints, and iterative design to solve real-world construction problems.
Cross Curricular
The Pioneering Unit integrates mathematics and engineering through hands-on construction projects that require students to apply scale factor, proportionality, and units of measurement. As students design, build, test, and refine structures, they learn engineering design principles such as criteria, constraints, force transfer, and iterative design.
