Powderpuff Results

Last night was the first Riverside Girl Scout Powderpuff Pinewood Derby. After a long design process for both girls, we managed to settle on the car style, color, and adornments. What a hassle! I think next time if we do it I’ll present (2) or (3) choices and that’ll be it.

Once I had the cars painted and assembled, wheels and all, it was time to add the weights. We took the cars to the hobby store to be weighed and figure out how much weight to add. Ali’s car weighed in at 3.7 oz. and Sarah’s was an even 4.0. We got 1 oz. of weight for each car. The weight limit was 5.0 oz. so Sarah wanted to go just under that since we didn’t want to get DQ’d for being too heavy. Ali’s we didn’t have to worry about since we were more than an ounce off. Sarah’s car went pretty good, though I messed up the clear coat (it was still a little soft) when I was holding it to drill the holes for the weights. On Alison’s, I ended up drilling THROUGH the car and messing up the paint and stickers. I WAS MAD! Luckily the damage wasn’t too bad and I was able to repair it and get it pretty close to the original condition. Can you see the repair?

In the end, both cars worked pretty well. They both averaged in the neighborhood of 2.380 seconds per run. Awards were given for first through 10th place. Alison took 10th place and Sarah took 4th. Both girls received medals. Sarah was .007 seconds away from getting a trophy. While they were happy (relatively speaking) with their awards, it was fun just making the cars with them and seeing how they reacted watching their cars race.