The Hovercraft Project In the News

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Reports on Hovercraft Project visit to Berkeley Preparatory School
February 2025

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Berkeley Preparatory School, Tampa Bay Florida
January 2024

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John M. Clayton Elementary School
November 2023

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Stuart Hall and the Good Shepherd Schools team up
April 2023

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Fifth-grader Calin Christopher holds two blowers in his hands, forcing him to spin, while riding on a hovercraft at West Sedona School on Friday, April 26. David Jolkovski/Larson Newspapers

Sedona-Oak Creek School District students floating through class

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Pine Street Elementary students ‘Lift Off’ with hovercraft project
Pine Street Elementary students ‘Lift Off’ with hovercraft project

By Adam Orr | GoUpstate.com

Pine Street Elementary’s cafeteria came alive Thursday as a make-shift hovercraft laboratory for the school’s fifth-graders.

Think of it as a hands-on, quick-start project designed to drive home the kinds of science and math skills students will need to embrace in the 21st Century.

With chairs and tables cleared away, students took battery-powered leaf blowers and combined them with a few household items to create mini-hovercrafts that they piloted back and forth across the floor.

There was plenty of squeals and laughter from the youngsters as they wobbled the unstable crafts around the room, but there were also a few tears.

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Carolina International students make their own hovercrafts
Carolina International students make their own hovercrafts

Independent Tribune | The local voice of Greater Cabarrus County
from Staff Reports

CONCORD- Carolina International School students learned about friction and motion while building their own hovercrafts.

The school teamed up with Chase Educational Consulting (CEC) to bring its Hovercraft Project to its students. The Hovercraft Project travels from city to city to work with schools, education organizations, after-school programs, religious institutions and community centers.

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Pine Street students learn science, teamwork from hovercrafts
Pine Street students learn science, teamwork from hovercrafts

By Zach Fox  | Staff Writer | GoUpstate.com
Posted Nov 16, 2017 at 5:47 PM - Go to source article

A loud school cafeteria can typically land someone in trouble, but Thursday morning the noise at Pine Street Elementary was not only encouraged, it was educational.

The school’s fifth-grade students took to the cafeteria for lessons in science and teamwork with Matthew Chase of the Hovercraft Project. The national nonprofit visits schools, providing the materials for students to build and race vehicles that slide across the floor, mimicking hovering.

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Hovercraft Project gives these MCSD students hands-on STEM lesson
Hovercraft Project gives these MCSD students hands-on STEM lesson

BY MARK RICE | mrice@ledger-enquirer.com
NOVEMBER 17, 2017 03:55 PM | Source: www.ledger-enquirer.com

Thanks to a serendipitous convergence of circumstances, Double Churches Elementary School students got an unusual hands-on lesson in the STEM subjects of science, technology, engineering and math — along with collaboration and communication — as they built hovercrafts and rode them across the gym floor Friday.

“It really felt like we were flying,” said fifth-grader Luke Norsworthy. “It was really cool.”

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