This guide continues the process of guiding students not only in designing and building an excellent dragster but also in understanding the science and technology principles that make this happen.

Production and Fine Tuning delves into the importance of carefully aligned axles, quality paint finishes, and more topics that go beyond shaping and basic construction. Some of the principles explored are:

Alignment and drift
Rolling and sliding friction
Aerodynamic drag
Specifications and trade-offs

Pitsco Education Timber Cutter is a helpful tool for cutting 1/8" wooden sticks. Recommended for bridge and tower building as well as other model projects. The see-through safety guard limits finger access to the blade.

A single-edged razor blade provides a clean, accurate cut. Miter marks are molded into the base to use as a reference when making angle cuts. Five extra blades are included. Additional replacement blades sold separately.

Pitsco Education Timber Tester is best used for determining the best timbers to use for the most critical members of the bridge or tower, as well as the optimum way to orient the timbers to provide the maximum amount of load-bearing capacity for any structure. The unit is durable, with the main member of the unit constructed of rugged ABS plastic. The testing span is adjustable from 4 to 12 inches, and the scale provides readings from 0 to 7 units of load. We recommend one Timber Tester for every four to six “structural engineers.”

Pitsco Education Towerpak is the most convenient and economical way to introduce an exciting tower activity to your entire class. It supplies your class with the materials it needs for the activity – wood building material (either balsa wood or basswood, your choice), colored Pitsco Structures Glue (the color makes it great for locating and judging joints), 25 tower design grid sheets, and 25 copies of the Student Guide to Model Tower Building. Requires hobby knife or Timber Cutter, foam board, structure pins, and waxed paper, sold separately.

Not intended for use with the EQs Tremor Table.

This kit is unique in that you can build it with either a truss or hipped roof. Whichever roof style is selected, students learn about:

• Dimensioning the lumber to the scale of real lumber used in construction.
• Reading house plan drawings.
• Using construction techniques in accordance with the International Building Code.
• Construction terminology.
• Attention to detail.
•  

The framing kit is for a home featuring a standard, two-bedroom layout.

Looking for a way to increase the speed and performance of your dragster? Try Pitsco’s Ultimate Axle Bushings – the ultimate in friction reduction.

These bushings fit snugly into the drilled axle hole, providing a slick, flat outer surface that will rub against the wheel hubs – similar to the function of washers but even better.

The interior of the axle bushing has been engineered to provide only a small amount of surface area that is in direct contact with the axle. In fact, these bearings provide a 94% reduction in the average surface bearing area – the area where friction is produced.

Ultimate Axle Bushings – another innovation from your friends at Pitsco! Flange diameter is 0.313". Fits snugly in a 0.25" hole.

The wheel-molding process isn’t perfect – but that’s no reason your wheels can’t be!

This simple tool makes it easy to create perfectly round wheels for your CO2 dragsters and other model cars. Place the wheel on the lathe and press the run button while moving the cutting tool back and forth across the wheel – adjust the lathe’s gauge to the tire as needed.

Requires a standard 120 V wall outlet. For use with standard-size dragster wheels (approximately 35 to 40 mm).

The Wind Bag is a high-tech, balloon-powered racer designed for both speed and distance. What makes it unique is a specially designed system that holds the balloon in place during its travel, thereby limiting friction and providing consistent thrust from the balloon. The kit comes with three different-size nozzles that maximize distance, speed, or combined speed and distance. Requires white glue and a drill, sold separately.

Choking Hazard: Children younger than eight years old can choke or suffocate on uninflated or broken balloons. Adult supervision required. Keep uninflated balloons from children. Discard broken balloons at once.

The RealCareer Employability Skills Program is an engaging, easy-to-implement program that uses hands-on activities and real-world applications to teach students 20 soft skills, from communication and interpersonal skills to time management and responsibility.

Use the program to:

• Supplement existing employability skills program
• Teach a complete unit on employability skills
• Generate real-life discussions
• Prompt reflection activities like journal-writing
• Generate ice-breaker activities

Target Audience:

• High school students
• Post-secondary students
• Workforce development programs

With our Online Employability Skills Program, students can practice 19 key soft skills in a self-paced, online learning environment. Based on our RealCareer Employability Skills Program, this e-learning program features real-world scenarios and activities to provide relevant soft skills practice opportunities. Each guided lesson includes automatic progress monitoring. Additionally, it enables students to submit exercises digitally to their teachers for grading and accountability. An instructor portal is also included with a guide for using the program, CTSO alignments and student completion certificates.

Supplement your program with select lessons as teaching time allows or focus on all 19 lessons for 15-20 hours of course content.

Available access options:

• Teacher license for one classroom
• Site license for multiple classrooms at one school
• District license for multiple classrooms at multiple schools

These student workbooks feature hands-on activities as well as real-world applications from the Employability Skills Program. The workbooks combine these activities to teach students 20 soft skills. Additionally, the workbooks correlate to the Employability Skills Program Workplace Scenario Cards, which also make a great addition to your program.

Includes 20 workbooks

The Roland CAMM-1 GS-24 desktop vinyl cutter is precision and efficiency – to the max. Equipped with a completely redesigned cutting and blade holder, the GS-24 offers greater stability and a 39.5 percent increase in downforce (from 250g to 350g). Translation: you can cut like never before – even on thick, dense substrates. Vehicle graphics, signs and decals, decorated apparel, specialty graphics, and more. With cutting-edge capabilities and unmatched reliability, backed by a Three-Year Trouble-Free Warranty, the GS-24 is Roland's best desktop vinyl cutter ever.

fischertechnik Introduction to STEM II is a more in-depth introduction to technology and robotics. This set uses everyday technology and invites students to construct 12 easy-to-understand models. Students are offered a foundation in STEM concepts with a focus on computer science. Based on the easy-to-use ROBO Pro Light software, this set introduces programming activities and incorporates robotics as a catalyst for interactive learning. Through building a model, students will experience hands-on applications of programming and see how it translates to the physical world. Engage students with hands-on activities that will help them develop an interest and aptitude in computer science and other STEM subjects. This education set is recommended for grades 3-5, and includes standards-based curriculum.

Learn more about topics covered and components included in this set in the product description below.

Save when you puchase more. Ask us for a quote!

To create an extra-long track, add these 4' sections onto the Maglev II Track. Constructed of sturdy aluminum; some assembly required.

Pitsco Education Accu-Fixtures Set is the best way to snap your project in place when using your Construction Caddy and Perf Insert. The small plastic pieces come in round and angular shapes to help your project stay in place while making the finishing touches.You’ll be impressed at how strong structures are when using these tools. Each set includes six 45/45/90-degree Accu-Angles, two 30/60/90-degree Accu-Angles, and six Accu-Cams.

Cams require Perf Insert, sold separately.

Cut your dragster’s axle weight in half by using aluminum instead of steel! Buy these 1/8" diameter axles precut, or cut your own from our three-foot lengths. Use the Precision Metal Saw (sold separately) to cut axles to desired lengths.

Cut your dragster’s axle weight in half by using aluminum instead of steel! Buy these 1/8" diameter axles precut, or cut your own from our three-foot lengths. Use the Precision Metal Saw (sold separately) to cut axles to desired lengths.

With Pitsco Education's AP Dragster - Getting Started Package start to help students understand force and motion, potential and kinetic energies, and more with this fun activity. It uses a plastic bottle to create a racer that flies down the track powered by air pressure. These are fun to build, and students can personalize their racer with paint, decals, or other items. Pack includes the kits, launcher, tire pump, and other items needed to lead the activity. Track length is 35' to 40'. Requires small shaping tools such as a coping saw, wood shaver, and sanding stick or sandpaper, sold separately.

The Pitsco Education AP Dragster Designer is an air-powered vehicle kit includes a balsa wood body blank that students shape, enabling them to apply knowledge of aerodynamics, friction, and other principles. After shaping the dragster, they assemble it and launch it on the AP Dragster Launcher, an air-powered launcher. Kit includes a body blank with predrilled axle holes and launch tube channel, four wheels, four axle bushings, two acetal axles, launch tube, straw, tube cap, self-adhesive glue lines, guide supports, and sandpaper. Requires the AP Dragster Launcher; an air pump; and simple cutting, shaving, or sanding tools such as a coping saw, wood shaver, sanding stick, or sandpaper, sold separately.

Searching for an introduction to racing that delivers the same excitement in the classroom as CO2 dragsters? The AP dragster activity provides a fun and safe racing experience for a fraction of the price.

This racing system is small enough that you can run a race in the classroom or hallway and then easily store the unit. To use the AP Dragster Launcher, just attach an air pump, slide two air-powered vehicles onto the launch tubes, pump to build air pressure, and press the button to simultaneously launch two cars down a 35- to 40-foot track! The launcher comes with a string anchor, which includes a spring-tension feature to maintain even string tension.

Using the AP Dragster Designer Kit, students can create a vehicle based on aerodynamics and other racing principles. Or, use the AP Mini Dragster Kit to demonstrate potential vs kinetic energy, force, motion, and other concepts.

The launcher features a built-in pressure relief system to keep air pressure to fewer than 40 psi. With HDPE construction and a built-in air gauge, the launcher is sturdy, and its dual-pressure tanks provide consistently even launches. Launcher is 16" x 11" x 3" and requires a hand pump or bicycle pump, sold separately. No assembly required.

The Pitsco Education AP Mini Dragster kit launches with air power, and its laser-cut chassis parts provide a quick and easy build. Also includes a car body design sheet that students can color and cut out. Or students can design and draw their own car body and use it. Includes the design sheet, laser-cut wooden parts, four wheels, four axle bushings, two acetal axles, launch tube, straw, tube cap, self-adhesive glue lines, and sandpaper. Requires the AP Dragster Launcher, an air pump, HD Bond II or similar white glue, glue stick, and scissors, sold separately.

With Pitsco Education's AP Bottle Racer Kit you can build an air-powered bottle rocket car to race in no time! This basic kit makes it easy for your students to make a launchable rocket car with ease – no tools required. Comes with corrugated chassis material, wheels, bushings, axles, string guide tube, bottle, and self-adhesive tabs – everything you need for one car. Launching requires the AP Bottle Racer Launcher and a tire pump, sold separately.

Water rocketry is one of the most fun and exciting hands-on science activities around. Converting empty plastic soda bottles into high-flying rockets provides a great opportunity for students to discover important scientific principles such as Newton’s laws, acceleration, thrust, and inertia.

Building model bridges from balsa or basswood is a great way to get students engaged in technology, science, and engineering principles. This Getting Started package includes materials for 25 students, testing equipment, and curriculum to get your classroom into bridge building.

The standard in basswood body blanks for the CO2 cars that Pitsco manufactures. Predrilled hole for a CO2 cartridge is precisely drilled every time. Choose basswood for a durable car.

Pitsco Education Bridgepak includes all the materials you need to complete an exciting bridge design and building activity. Packs are available for a class of 10 or a class of 25 with Balsa wood or basswood strips, individual bottles of colored Pitsco Structures Glue and The Pitsco Bridge Book, student guide sheets. Balsa wood strips are 1/8" x 1/8" x 24". Basswood strips are 3/32" x 3/32" x 24". Construction requires hobby knife or Timber Cutter, small clips, foam board, pins, and waxed paper, sold separately.

Pitsco Education Bridgepak includes all the materials you need to complete an exciting bridge design and building activity. Packs are available for a class of 10 or a class of 25 with Balsa wood or basswood strips, individual bottles of colored Pitsco Structures Glue and The Pitsco Bridge Book, student guide sheets. Balsa wood strips are 1/8" x 1/8" x 24". Basswood strips are 3/32" x 3/32" x 24". Construction requires hobby knife or Timber Cutter, small clips, foam board, pins, and waxed paper, sold separately.

Pitsco Education Construction Caddy II is constructed of high-density polyethylene, which helps make it water resitant and extremely durable. It has a big work area – 18-3/4" x 9-3/8" – that holds a piece of foam board or the Pitsco Perf Insert. Tape a template to foam board and pin the pieces for convenient gluing. The foam board can be removed and stored, so the caddy can be used again quickly. The caddy holds pins, balsa wood sticks, glue, and more. Includes one piece of foam board.

Balsa wood, glue, T-pins, Perf Insert, and Accu-Fixtures sold separately.

A must-have for teachers embarking on the Pitsco Custom Cruiser Vehicle Design activity. This book takes you through the entire activity including design concepts, CAD drawings, clay modeling, vehicle construction, and testing. Contains many helpful suggestions for implementing this activity in your classroom.

You’ll cruise through this CO2-vehicle activity with our Getting Started package. It brings together all the materials needed to build 25 Custom Cruisers, plus a video, teacher’s guide, and book to help guide you and your class through the process.

Requires a drill, coping saw, wood file or rasp, finish, and a race system, sold separately.

Students simply paint the hubs to match or complement their dragsters’ color. Tires and hubs are shipped unassembled. The hubs are white polystyrene. The Super C tires are snap-on rubber rings.

Students simply paint the hubs to match or complement their dragsters’ color. Tires and hubs are shipped unassembled. The hubs are white polystyrene. The Super C tires are snap-on rubber rings.

Sensing the first car to finish and signaling the winner with a light, the EZ Finish Gate will clear any question about who finished first.

Like the EZ Start Gate, this finish gate is made of durable, high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and works on a floor track or the FasTrak. Comes with detectors and a 12-volt power adapter. Requires the EZ Start Gate, sold separately. Note: The EZ Finish Gate can also work with the AP Dragster Launcher, sold separately.

An inexpensive way to introduce dragsters into your curriculum, this package offers enough materials to build 50 dragsters and the equipment to race them.

Requires a drill, coping saw, wood rasp or file, ruler, scissors, and finish, sold separately.

Race CO2 dragsters – even with a budget on the brakes.

Start with the EZ Start Gate – a manual start gate designed to make dragster activities easy and affordable. Lining up cars and launching them is a simple operation, and students spot the winners at the finish line. When you can budget for more equipment, add the EZ Finish Gate to quickly and accurately indicate the winner. Or get both – the entire EZ Start Raceway – at the same time.

The EZ Start Gate works on a floor track or the FasTrak Elevated Racetrack, sold separately. It is made of durable, high-density polyethylene (HDPE) to last for years. Comes with floor anchors, monofilament line, and track hardware.

Quickly set up and race in the classroom with the EZ Track Raceway. The track comes with 20 one-meter high-strength PVC sections that easily slide together with joints that slightly elevate the track off the ground. Use the 20 sections to create a dual-lane setup or one long lane to race down. Race dragsters, mousetrap vehicles, bottle racers, solar cars, and more. When the racing is finished, the track quickly disassembles and can be stacked for storage. Compatible with the EZ Start Raceway, Impulse G3 Race System, and more.

Fog machines are valuable flow-visualization tools, and this handheld version is the best we’ve created!

The FLO Fog Generator injects a fog stream into a wind tunnel to test the aerodynamics of objects such as drag racers. It is a cleanable unit that can be easily opened to wipe away residue – plus, it operates without generator tubes. Includes the fogger unit and one bottle of fog fluid.

Note: Fog fluid (42312) is only compatible with the FLO Fog Generator (42180).

Fold it up and start racing within minutes!

The Fold & Race Ramp is designed to test and race Fold-N-Roll Racers, balloon cars, and other rolling models in your classroom. Economical, easy to store, and fun to use.

Introducing transportation has never been easier. This Getting Started package includes everything you need to launch your students’ program: vehicle templates, axles, wheels, two test ramps, and the Dr. Zoon Fold-N-Roll Video.

Requires scissors, hobby knife, and transparent tape, sold separately.

Pitsco Education Geosolids ask student to use simple materials to build three-dimensional models of five geosolids, or regular polyhedra: tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron. The included activities have students note the number of vertices, edges, and faces of each structure, which is used to help them build the structure.

Each kit includes 100 straws, 100 pipe cleaners, teacher instructions, and a student user guide.

Our Grid Paper is offered in two sizes and three grid patterns. Choose the one that's right for your activity.

The 51850 1/8" Grid Paper has 1/8" grids printed on one side of a 10-1/2" x 16" sheet. It is useful for sketches needing a little more detail – plus, it is the recommended size for bridge-building activities. Sold in packages of 100 sheets.

The 55509 1/4" Grid Paper is a double-sided, 11" x 17" sheet that displays quarter-inch squares on one side and one-millimeter squares on the other side. A metric ruler is printed along the bottom for quick-and-easy measurements. . . .

Designed with style in mind, the GT-FX Wheels not only are cool but also can be used as the front wheels on any car design. Especially good for shell dragsters as the axle hole goes all the way through the wheel. Injection molded.

Pitsco Education Large Structures Package helps younger students learn about basic structures and easily handle the materials. The giant, fuzzy, and colorful pipe cleaners in this pack are not only fun to use but also easy to handle for small hands. A class of students can each learn to make two basic shapes and then combine materials to create bigger, more complex structures.

Comes with 120 large assorted-color pipe cleaners, 180 AP Rocket Tubes (12" long, .518 ID, .544 OD), and instructions for building a cube and tetrahedron.