Cardboard Chair Project consist of students working on problem solving skills.  Groups develop ideas for a chair from brainstorming, sketching, designing, and then doing a detailed sketch with measurements included.  The chair can be made of cardboard and masking tape only.  No other materials are allowed to be used in final output of the chair other than paint.  The chair must then be able to hold their instructor which is approximately 200 pounds.  All of the chairs shown below from this semester indeed do hold the instructor.  The objective of this problem solving process is to make the chair hold the instructor but to also make it as light as possible.  After finishing the chairs an outside class of judges are brought in to give their opinions and chairs are graded on three forms of criteria.  (Design, Weight, and Specifications)

Examples of final products 

As you can see above a lot of time and effort was put into the design and artwork on this chair!

The chair above is made to act as a classroom podium when you stand behind it!

This was the lightest chair design which weighed only 9 pounds but will hold their 200 lb instructor!

This chair can hold two people at a time....some call this the "Love Seat"

First ever successful cardboard rocking chair! However, weighed in at a whopping 61 pounds.  This

goes to show you how much work they had to put into this design. They spent a lot of time cutting

cardboard.