Pinewood Derby

Lukas participated in his first Pinewood Derby today for Cubscout Pack 200.

The theme was "heroes", and Lukas chose Batman (naturally).

I stayed pretty hands off as he designed the car, and helped him a bit with the final assembly.

I am not a crafty person, so I needed some extra help myself from friends and Iria.

In the end, we got that thing painted, rolling straight, and weighing in at 5 ounces.

What more could you ask for?

Here are some of the other cars from his age group. 

Lukas was enjoying himself, and had a good attitude going in.

In most of the races he came in second to that thin wedged orange and blue car that was looking a bit more 'Father Project' than the other seven year old's cars :)

But he got one win in when the orange and blue speedster sat out.

Overall he placed second in his age group and made it into the finals for the chance to compete against another dozen slick thin wedged cars.

Kassidy had a lot of fun, and brought her own cars.

At home she had already commandeered Lukas's car.

Lukas placed 11th in the finals, taking third place in one heat and averaging fourth place in the rest.

In his age group, he won a medal for "Best Themed Design" and "Second Place".

Woohoo!