At the end of the fall semester, eighth grade technology students competed in the Dragster Jam Championships. This is a culmination of the final project, where students needed to use the engineering design process to fabricate a carbon dioxide cartridge powered car constructed of poplar wood and launch it down a 50-foot track.

Students applied the skills and knowledge they learned throughout the semester of design and machine tool safety to create their car. Students set their goals and met the project constraints to produce creative and fast cars. Individual classes then dueled for the top three spots of their section and then those three finalists moved on to the Dragster Jam Tournament on Jan. 23. Fifteen racers brought their cars to the starting line of the raised wooden track in the Technology Lab for a series of nail-biting reaction time launched races. Jed Pruett took first place, Brielle Marchioni took second place, and Ryder Cook rounded out the finals with third place.