iLEAD Academy students used their Geometry skills to create items they proposed to be sold through the iMAKE Club, which helps raise funds for school trips and extracurricular activities.
Briar Rucker, a student at Trimble County High School and iLEAD Academy, opted to make a small table from cedar that he and his father logged. Rucker pried the bark off the chunk of wood and spruced it up for this project. He utilized Geometry by determining the radius and how to space the legs properly so weight is distributed evenly.
“My grandpa was a woodworker so I decided to pick it up,” Rucker said.
Carroll County’s Alyssa Horner decided to make a coffee bar that could be customized. She also used her math skills to determine the layout of the project. Horner’s project was chosen as one of the items that will be sold through iMAKE.
Another Carroll County student, Jackson Marsh, created geometric shaped coasters that will be sold through iMAKE. “Something this small and simple yet so geometrically difficult is pretty cheap to make,” Marsh said.
A wooden planter box was the project of choice for CCHS student Jack Chowning, who wanted to create an item to decorate a porch. “If it’s on the porch it promotes our products to people going by,” Chowning said. He noted he used the pythagorean theorem to design the planter box.
iMAKE will begin featuring five projects each month starting in September and will introduce a website this fall for people to order customized items year-round for birthdays, weddings, and other special occasions, according to iLEAD Academy Director Jenna Gray.