Maglev Trains

                                   By Eleanor Orad

      A maglev train is a train that floats above the track! It is held up by magnets that repel which means that you need to use that same magnet poles such as North and South pole. My group came up with our design by voting for each other’s design and combining designs.

          To make our design work we needed to start by getting our materials which for us is strip magnets and ring magnets For both the train and the track. We layered the strip magnets on the track so it would be 2 layers so it can be stronger. It started to work but then it could not work because the layers of masking tape made it harder to levitate above the track.

               To improve our train we flipped magnets around switched from disc magnets to ring magnets, we also fixed a problem that our strip magnets had by flipping magnets. We also tried to add marbles to be “people” or a weight. My group was able to put 13 marbles!

 We also used the engineering design process for our train and the steps were ask,imagine,plan,create,improve. All those steps we used to make it work. It helped because we need to know how it works to be like real transportation engineers. I helped a lot and it will help even more if we make another Maglev Train