Sixth grade students at Clay Joint Elementary School learned about principles and concepts related to flight. They researched WWII gliders, designed and built their own gliders, and competed in a glider competition. Students collaborated through a series of hands-on steps that helped to improve their problem-solving and critical thinking skills, while integrating the Engineering Design Process which allowed students to creatively explore STEM through design. First, they collaborated to design a prototype glider. Then, students researched WWII gliders, participated in class activities where they learned about gravity, lift, drag, thrust, balanced and unbalanced forces, and the Bernoulli principle, as well as the specific parts of their gliders. Students then built their model gliders and tested each variable / variation multiple times. After reflecting on their observations and data, students built a final glider model and competed for distance and accuracy.