Can you make a paper airplane that stays in the air longer than anyone else’s? Put your aerospace engineering to the test and learn something new in the process!

Contest Details:

• We will accept submissions from June 21 through July 21, 2021 by 9:00 PM.
• To enter, send an email to cplflight@cantonpl.org. The email should include your name, age, and a link to a video showing the full flight of your paper airplane from take-off to landing. Tip: have someone else film it while you throw it outside.
• The video should be no longer than 1 minute, and should be hosted on your own cloud storage, like Google Drive or Dropbox. Make sure that your sharing setting allows anyone with the link to view your video.
• Each person may enter only once. You may enter as an individual OR as part of a family team, but not both. Team entries will be judged in the age category of the oldest team member.
• By entering, you are granting Canton Public Library permission to show your video or link to it on in its website.
• Divisions are based on age: 8 & under, 9-12, and 13-adult. 
• Winners will be announced on Aug. 4, 2021 at 5:00pm on our website.

How to Make Paper Airplanes

• All ages
  • Make over 40 different airplanes (easy to difficult)
• Younger kids
  • Print and use a premade template
• Older kids/adults
  • Make Takuo Toda's Sky King, the world recorder holder for flight time
  • Tips and tricks

Learn Something

• World record holder for flight time, Takuo Toda, tells his story
• World record holder for distance, John Collins, explains aerodynamics
• Learn the science behind flight

How to Make it MORE Fun

• ADDTIONAL CHALLENGES (tricks and hitting targets)