The first thing me and MK did was watch the video many times to see exactly what we needed to do. Then we decided not to start cutting and testing right away, we first made a T tart of ideas and what the outcomes were. After that we started making our boats and testing. Below is what we found out each day of our project:

Day 1: We made our T tart and generated ideas. We found that the best option was Styrofoam plates which is what they used in the video. We also wrote down different factors which would come into play when we started. Some examples were; the shape and size of the boat, the size of the key hole, the amount of soap and the type of soap.

Day 2: We started to build and test boats. This day was mostly just trying to figure out the shape. We found that the medium sized house shaped boats with a medium key hole worked the best. We also realized that on our first poster we had no where to document the distance the boats went. So we made a new poster with our new boats and how far they went.

Day 3: At the beginning of class everyone said what worked and didn’t work. And everyone came to the conclusion that the boats would not go if there was soap in the water. So we built new boats and we made the key hole with a hole puncher so the hole would be perfect and always the same with every boat which I think was one of our problems the day before. We decided on two different boats, one is a medium house shaped boat with a small key hole and the other a small triangle with a small key hole. They both went 30cm at about the same speed.

Day 4: We decided on our final boats and tested a few more times.

Day 5: We did the competition against all the other teams. We used or triangle shape book. It went 105cm. I think we could’ve done better if we could do some more test and research.