We at 114 try to use WAD (Whiteboard Aided Design) before we move to the computers. Once students can understand the goal of their design, they use CAD for what it is: A tool to enact a design. CAD is simply a step that is used to bring a design to reality, and nothing more.

The design is more than the CAD. The design is the thought, the sketches, and the math involved in bringing the mechanism to reality.