TRENTON, Ga. — The whine of a starter, a couple of chugs from a Briggs & Stratton V-twin engine and Dade County High School’s first hovercraft project roars to life in a parking lot behind the school.
Students Seth Schratter, Cody Stockman and Eric Wallin proudly demonstrate the results of a year-long project that they say will continue into next fall and beyond.
Seth and Cody, who both graduated this year, said students in the school’s advanced engineering class started the hovercraft project as a three-dimensional model that developed into a full-scale, working vehicle.
“We started towards the end of last year, that’s when we started making all the bottom pieces — just the simple basics — because we knew it was going to be (finished) at the end of the year,” said Seth, who headed up the project and plans to pursue a career in engineering.