Initial Experience:
I remember this challenge!I did this in the beginning of the year and it was really hard but fun!I can’t wait to try this again and maybe succeed even more with this!(Let’s Hope).The part that I want to work on most is that I want to keep up the tower for longer than last time because I think my group and I timed it last time and I want to work on the timing and make it stand for longer and maybe even set a WORLD RECORD?!
Group Members/Roles:
Chat Captain:SK
Materials Manager:SE/SM
Time Keeper:BW
Document Job:SE/SM
Ps: SE and SM will be doing teamwork and switching off from Document to Materials manager.
Materials we have t0 use:
- 1oo index cards
2. 1 meter of masking tape
Planning:
Our plan is to take a piece of paper and turn it into a circle by shaping it with our hands and then we will tape it with some masking tape to hold it into place.Then we will put a rectangle piece of paper over the circle piece of paper.Then we will do this process over again until we have used as much paper as we think is good and until the timer has gone off.While we were doing this we also were deciding on the group roles and deciding who is who in the group and I think our group roles are really good and really fir each other perfectly.
Here is a picture of our planning ideas:
We had 9 minutes to complete this task of making a free standing structure that can hold things out of 1 meter of masking tape and 100 index cards!
Here are some picture we got while doing this:
**Other Pictures Coming Soon**
Midway Reflection:
What’s going well is that our tower looks really sturdy and well put together.What’s not going so well is that some of the people in our group are not doing their group roles and a classmate of mine and me were the ones doing all the group roles and we tried to tell our group mates to do their group roles but they wouldn’t do it.I think our group can improve on the design by maybe taking off some layers of paper because if we don’t have to use all 100 pieces of paper than we can take off some layers and maybe our tower would be more even.Or maybe we could tape our tower in places so it can stay more even or maybe we can stand straight instead of tilting while taping the tower so that the tower might be straight then.
Here is a picture of where our project is at right now:
Second Attempt Picture:
**Coming Soon**
Second Attempt Reflection:
The tower is 21 inches right now.We changed the design by making it more straight by standing straight and fixing up the angle that the tower was at and it worked.So yes our reflection thoughts did work and they did help us.What I would do differently next time is if I had the same group I would maybe change up the group roles and maybe we could all try something new as in group roles because these group roles really were not the best fit for every person in our group.