1. Still Standing Modular Design with Pass Down Instruction Slides

2. Digital Scale Recommend securing to a piece of wood to prevent theft and damage. These can get expensive. Have backup batteries on hand.

3. Work Surfaces Cut scrap corrugated cardboard and cover with trace paper or wax paper. I keep a milk crate full of these. For sizes try 5” x 7” and up. Old 3-ring binder covers work great too. When they get worn out-resurface. If someone uses too much glue they can remove trace paper and cut design free.

4. Shooting Device Secure to table with mini bar clamps. These attach quickly.

5. Shooting Device Parts Quick Grip Mini Bar clamps are a big advantage. Make sure you hold the shooting device when the clamps come off or have the student hold it or it will go crashing to the floor.

6. Shooting Device Aiming Use a block day or a building day to go around with a sample design for each bench to shoot at for practice. This way it’s not new on competition day. Make sure to tell them they can’t pull the rubber band past the crease or wind it up. I don’t allow them to move the shooter, just the module for practice.

7. Still Standing Module Design 1 Trapazoid. Notice that all modules are identical in size and shape. Make sure they mass produce them first, then build them into something.

8. Still Standing Module Design 2 Diamond with rectangle. The rectangle inside the blue diamond should have been highlighted too. This helps you identify what their module is. Notice some of the trace paper on the module from too much glue. Encourage them to go light on the glue. A lot of the module is in the air allowing the bottle cap to pass right underneath. Clever strategy.

9. Still Standing Module Design 3 X and 2 stick bundle. Two different approaches. The X’s shown here are probably on the light side. They could have a lot more modules added. The bundles require that the 2 toothpicks are always in the same orientation. These are side-by-side, so you couldn’t then go and make a bundle by stacking one on top of the other. They always need to be identical in size and shape. I use the analogy, it’s like copy and paste on the computer.

10. Still Standing Module Design 4 Squares. Once the modules are mass- produced you can build them up in unique configurations. Remind them to reinforce with additional glue.

11. Still Standing Module Design 5 Triangles. Low profile designs sometimes have the bottle cap fly right over.

12. Still Standing Module Design 6 Triangles. The heavier designs usually get bumped, but require a lot of direct hits to get taken off the bench.