Innovations and Inventions: welcome to the schools year 2006-2007. Innovations and inventions is a pre-engineering class where we learn the processes of problem solving, restearch, design techniques and developing a finished model for competition. The first six weeks of the class will be devoted to learning how to put ideas on paper and using a computer for the same end. Paper drawings and computer generated drawings will be graded for accuracy and neatness. The rest of the block will be devoted to researching designing and building projects. The projects are: bridge building, CO2 cars, airplanes, rockets, mousetrap cars, egg cars, catapults, roller coasters and rube-goldberg machines. career management success.