Pinewood Derby Bracket Sheets

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Pinewood derby bracket sheets. See the challenge in stearns method critique. Pinewood derby cars are supposed to be made by the scouts resulting in a huge difference in quality between different ranks or age groups. Each scout builds a race car out of a block of wood. Then add a second chance bracket of 16 whose survivor will race against the survivor of the second chance bracket of 8.

Photocopy enlarge onto an overhead projection transparency. It seems the best way to do this is with a pinewood derby committee. The annual pinewood derby race is a favorite activity for most cub scouts moms and dads too. Getting started the most exciting pinewood derbies require lots of planning and lots of volunteers to help with the event.

A winner is declared for each rank or age group. See also pinewood derby race method evaluation. At a den meeting the cars are raced on a downhill track often with 3 or 4 lanes. Print the above chart.

Download the spreadsheet file for the number of lanes on your race track. You may use and distribute these files freely for non commercial use. Double elimination chart advance preparation. I suggest organizing a committee at the first pack meeting of the year and drafting as many parents as possible to help.

Algorithms programs submitted will be listed with references and appropriate credits. Stearns method software may be obtained from the us scouting service project on the pinewood derby reference materials page. Tips and other resources. Scoutdb has developed a microsoft excel spreadsheets to automate pinewood derby scoring.

Pinewood derby score keeping spreadsheet. Each car races three or four times once in each lane. 16 car double elimination race chart for pinewood derby race. We re pleased to make this available to cub scout packs to help them hold a better pinewood derby this spreadsheet handle up to 15 cars in three lanes or four lanes.