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Schools and universities throughout the world are now utilizing the
DiscoverHover program to provide students with an innovative,
practical, realistic learning experience. The links below will
introduce you to some of these schools and illustrate the creative ways
they are merging DiscoverHover into their curricula.
To have
your DiscoverHover hovercraft
project considered as a Featured School, email PR@WorldHovercraft.org.
Wantirna
College,
Wantirna,
Victoria, Australia
Year
9 and 10 Technology
Club students built their first DiscoverHover
One hovercraft
during lunch times at school, and have started construction on their
second. "We relied heavily on the DiscoverHover
One plans
and the web site," says instructor Robert Forbes, " …
because they work!"
Ellicott
Mills Middle School,
Ellicott City, Maryland USA
The students of Technology Education instructor Robert Hodge give new
meaning to the school's motto, Soaring
to New Heights, as
they build their first hovercraft.
Cary-Grove
High School,
Cary, Illinois USA
Industrial Technology Department chairman Mike Naughton has made
Cary-Grove's hovercraft a multidisciplinary project for both his
students and his fellow instructors.
Armstrong
Atlantic State University,
Savannah, Georgia USA
Dr. Cameron Coates, Assistant Professor of Engineering Studies, uses
DiscoverHover to challenge his students to not only build a hovercraft,
but to invent their own design.
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