Gustavo Cabanillas watched intently as his team’s wind-powered car – four paper cups glued to cardboard and two straw-encased sticks attached to tea lights serving as wheels – soared away from the fan across the gym floor 267 inches.
The Montross Middle School sixth-grader was proud of his team’s accomplishment in one of three challenges at the STEM competitions hosted by Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) Thursday at the school.