Pinewood Derby

Lincoln competed in his first Pinewood Derby today...

Luckily, Grandpa and Brent were up helping us work on the kitchen, so we had access to lots of cool tools for shaping, weighting, and balancing the car.

Lincoln had a very clear idea of what he wanted and created this cool car all by himself (with the exception of a few power tool requirements).  He decided to go with a "3-wheeled" design to reduce friction and weighted the car with nickels from 2005 (his birth year) for good luck.

The competition was impressive.

Can you tell which cars were made by sisters of the scouts?

They weren't eligible for the finals, but they were both pretty fast!

The track set up is very high tech these days - there is a sensor at the finish line which sends placing directly to a computer to calculate the winner.

And Lincoln finished in 2nd place!

Not bad for his first race!