Our first design was a really bad fail because on our track was 1 north strip magnet and 3 south disk magnets across the track but we did not think about what would happen when train was going to levitate above the track. But then we realized that the disk magnets are really bad. On our train we put 2 south disk magnets but to mention again disk magnets are not good and disk magnets are to heavy so it was not levitating so high and that is not we want because then it won’t get it across the track which is what we want to accomplish. The other thing that happened was that trains two south disk magnets attracted to the 1 strip magnet on the track.

We had multiple problems but our biggest problem was we had way to much tape train and it was tipping over so it was not levitating or floating to the other side this matters because we were not accomplishing our goal. Some of our other problems were the disk magnets were not working also our track was not what it was supposed to be at the beginning.

Our final design worked because our track was what it was supposed to be and our train levitated above the track and with a tiny push it levitated with 6 passengers safely across the track not tilting at all. Now our train had 2 strip magnets on the side of the train and 4 strip magnets stacked on top of each other on the sides.

During maglev I was excited because I wanted to see what it would be,happy because I will be an engineer for the first time in my life, and nervous because we had a lot of problems.

Maglev train