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Title: Elastic Energy Launcher

This kinetic sculpture uses rubber bands to store elastic potential energy and transfer it into kinetic energy to create motion.

Makaylah Leonard

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This is my kinetic energy project, "The Spinning Sanrio". It's a spinning automaton that I made using cardboard, wood sticks, a paper straw, and a hot glue gun. This uses motion by using the crank/turning handle for the image to spin in a circular motion, also using kinetic energy from the hand while turning.

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I made a water-based energy wheel created by two paper plates, four water bottles, and a chopstick. I taped all four water bottles to the back of a paper plate, and the chopstick acted as bearing for the wheel. The force of the water kept the bottles spinning acting as force. Her name is "The Slaying Wheel" lol.

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My project is a pendulum made from cardboard, yarn, and a metal ring that demonstrates all three laws through swinging motion and energy transfer. I chose this because it's a perfect example of all 3 and super simple!! Sometimes the simplest things can make us see so much more!

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My project is a small rubber band powered car. I made it using recycled materials like cardboard, bottle caps, straws and wooden ends of old paint brushes. When I twist the rubber band around the back axle and let it go, the car moves forward on its own. It’s a simple design, but it c shows how energy and motion work together.

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Ornithopter- I chose to make this as I was inspired by the hummingbirds outside of my window. I used balsa wood which broke easily and other inexpensive craft materials to put it together. A twisted rubber band holds the potential energy and then let go provides the kinetic energy to move the wings.

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This is my project, The Cat who chased the Moon. It incorporates the use of gravity and force to simulate the cat jumping toward the moon. I used wood as the base, a hanger to hang the "moon" and cut out from a big piece of puzzle to create the cat design on top of a cork with a spring imbetween.

P.s. please excuse my cat, Moirae. She loves to include herself in my homework projects.

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For my project I chose to make a sculpture that changes its direction and movement based by the wind, I used thin pieces of paper towel to catch the wind to move the tinfoil body underneath with it. My sculpture shows how energy can be transferred by wind, this force from the wind transfers kinetic energy into my sculpture causing it to move and roll.

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Nayeli Garcia Aguilar

The Spinning Dachshund:

I decided to use an old cardboard that I had at home from a recent online order that would act as the base and the stand to help hold the gears and the lever, with some toothpicks being hot glued to act as gears. While I collected the mini Dachshund that I had at home to be the main character since I really like Dachshunds.

This sculpture converts potential energy into kinetic energy as its parts rise and fall in a continuous motion, demonstrating the conservation of energy through rhythmic, gravity driven movement.

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Free energy fan made on a budget. This free energy fan was made with home and medical office supplies from my job. The motion of the free energy fan is created when the rubber bands twist and release their elastic energy, making the blades spin.

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This is my Kinetic Energy Project: "The Lift-Master 3000".

My sculpture is a functional pulley system made to demonstrate Kinetic energy. The system consists of a hand-operated crank that rotates an axle, which in turn winds a spool and lifts a bucket attached to a string. When the crank is turned, the kinetic energy generated is transferred to the spool, causing it to rotate and pull the bucket upward (or down).

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Purple-y the Halloween Spider (named by a 5 yr old)

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I actually had a lot of fun creating my kinetic energy project, "Purple-y" the Halloween Spider. It's a spider automaton made out of cardboard and wood and various other craft supplies, specifically a shoebox, cardstock, wooden beads, a plastic drinking straw, scrap cardboard, hot glue, googly eyes and pipe cleaners. It has a hand crank that you turn, and the mechanical energy created by your hand is transformed into kinetic energy as the spider moves. The spider moves up and down linearly on rods (wooden skewers) that are attached to handmade cardboard cams on a lower axle that spins. The movement of the cams is circular, and this movement is transformed into the reciprocal or up and down movement of the rods on which the spider segments are attached. It kind of reminds me of the movement of an old reciprocating engine with pistons. It's not the smoothest thing, but I'm kind of inspired now to make more of these with my kids using different animal designs :)

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Reminder - you can upload videos to AI and ask them to help you explain how force, netwon's laws and conservation of energy relate to the project. But you need to provide an

APA citation that you used it and you have to change the wording to be yours.

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I present to you: “Life Lately”

Created with an internal spindle to wind and unwind the twine with a weight on the end, the stick on the side spins and slaps the carousel beams, causing the carousel to spin. Thus representing the raveling, unraveling, and disorientation that is—life lately.

The potential energy from the weight is converted to kinetic energy causing the inner rod to spin with the stick connected. The stick then hits the carousel beams, transferring its kinetic energy and causing it to spin as well.

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My sculpture is the swing ride that is found at the fair or carnivals! I made this with things I found around my house, and tried to make it colorful just like the rides you see at the fair using construction paper. I used a pencil that I wrapped with twine, and stuck it through a plastic cup. I also put another hole through the side of the cup to leave a little piece to twine out that I could pull. By using force to pull the twine, the pencil accelerated in speed causing the “swings” to spin in a circle. In this sculpture you can notice Inertia, as well as potential energy transferring to kinetic energy from the swings increasing in both speed and height at the beginning, and decreasing at the end.

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My sculpture is a wheel powered pendulum. I made this with materials that I found in my kitchen. The structure consists of a base, 2 uprights to hold the axle (straw) and the wheel (plastic disk), a string with a weighted pendulum bob. When I spin the wheel, it's rotational energy transfers through the string to the pendulum, and gravity keeps the pendulum swinging back and forth.

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This is my kinetic energy project, Wild dolphins!

I'm using copper wire for this demonstration. I start off by using input force from my hand to twist the lever on the side of the box and it transfers the force into the wire mechanism inside the box. The mechanical energy is then transferred to the wires attached to the dolphins, and the dolphins "swimming" is my output energy. I used cardboard, tape, copper wire, hot glue for this project.

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I'm calling my project "Out of Time".

There's a little magnet on top of the sculpture that causes the top disk to spin (it's also studded with magnets) - as the disk spins, it creates more tension on the dental floss, which causes the paper clips to hover just within range of their respective magnets, and also makes a wire frame hourglass appear.

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This is the Sound Wave! As named, it is a visual representation of a sound wave. As the moving gears on the bottom push the wave up and down, the bells on the far left jingle, and the other objects at the top represent the sound traveling all the way to the ear. The only thing I purchased to create this was the dowel rods, but otherwise used scrap wood, cardboard, bells, hot glue, and paint that I had at the house. I teach preschool so arts and crafts are my jam. You can witness different principles of physics in this kinetic sculpture such as Newton's Laws of Motion (First, Second and Third), mechanical energy changing to kinetic energy, friction, and more.

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Hello everyone!

I am Savannah and this is my submission for the project of kinetic energy of a Catapult. I used materials from home such as skewers and twine rope, I have for other projects, and a water bottle cap. How I used the twine rope is it is used attach each of the skewers together to create the catapult. For the arm, the main piece I should say, I used two skewers and a water bottle cap to hold and launch the projectile (the rock). To begin with the details, I added dots on the skewers, all of them, with paint to create a lovely design that I think looks very cute. The arm appears as a dark color in the video however, it is painted blue.

In this video I launched a tiny rock into the woods, here you can see it actually jump! I thought that was really cool. This project was really fun to create and make a actual catapult launch little things in the air is really fun!

Thank you for viewing my project! I hope to see this be a success and;I hope you enjoyed viewing this video.

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This is my "Kinetic Calm" windmill!

I built this little windmill as a kinetic sculpture using simple materials I had on hand; wood, cardboard, fly fishing line, Styrofoam, old arrows and some duct tape to hold everything together. The blades are balanced on a central axis so they can spin when pushed or when air moves through them.

What I like most about it is how something so basic can come to life with just a little movement. It’s not powered by anything fancy, just motion itself.

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With the various folds and cuts that I manipulated for Henry; it allowed for the potential energy within the folds and cuts to be stored. With the "opening" of Henry, the act pulls on the base of paper, which then in turn releases the stored potential energy of the folds and then is converted into the kinetic energy that drives the motion of Henry.

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This is my Pulley Popper!

First, the mass and the acceleration of the magnet traveling down the ramp and into the cup creates force. This force is then transferred into the cup and creates work on the cup pulling it down. According to Newton's Third Law, this creates an equal and opposite attraction where the balloon is pulled up with the same amount of work as the cup being pulled downward (given it is a completely closed system). Therefore, this gives the balloon potential energy. Finally, once the balloon is popped by a tiny needle at the top of the pulley, it enters free fall back to the ground.

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This is Bob the balancing man. Gravity and the use of counterweights give him the ability to maintain balance no matter what force is applied to him from any direction. (I thought we were able to post more than one photo or video so I won’t be able to include my first model)

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This is the Flying Dragon!

Turning the stick at the bottom rotates the "gears" down below, which pushes up on the body parts of the dragon (the yellow circles) and makes our dragon fly. The body pieces of the dragon also act as weights; if not for the weight of the dragon itself, the sticks would remain in place, and the gears wouldn't be able to push on anything. Turning the main horizontal stick at the bottom sets the entire sculpture in motion, but none of it would work without the help of gravity pushing the dragon back down so he can be set in motion all over again by the gears.

(Please don't judge his design too harshly, I am not an artist haha)

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This is the Kinetic Cat Toy!

How force is and energy and transferred in my sculpture to create motion is a ball connected to a spring has kinetic energy because the spring stores elastic potential energy and transfers that into kinetic energy. when a spring is stretched or compressed, it stores what is called potential energy. The spring wants to return to an equilibrium state where it is unstretched, it pushes or pulls on the ball, therefore transferring any energy stored, causing the ball to move. The ball will swing back-and-forth until all the energy is gone, and the ball will stand straight up.

(also ignore the toy axolotl. I was using that as a counterweight.)