A maglev train is a piece of technology that runs on magnets and levitates above the track. This allows it to have extreme speed. We made mini maglev trains and this is what happened so far. My groups idea for the track was to put four strips of magnets on the track and to put eight other disk magnets. For the train, we put four little strips of magnet and tried to get our train to levitate above the track by using repultion. For example, we had the trains magnets using the north poles and the tracks too. We hoped that it would levitate but we had to make a few adjustments first.

The adjustments that we made that worked were taking two strips away from the track and all the disk magnets so that there was only one strip on each side of the track. When we took of two strips from the train it was even with the track so it started to levitate. But that wasn’t enough to get it to glide from one side of the track to the other. Also we were trying to get it to do that by only giving the train a little push. We tried to add three disk magnets to the train but that was unsuccessful so we decided that we should use one. That was successful. 

I thought that the experience was great when we collaborated and also took in and tried others ideas. But sometimes we disagreed and I think that we could of done a little bit better in thinking about others ideas, but it was a phenomenal  experience over all.