Tuesday, February 26, 2008

charlie the egg

the class activity was great. caught of guard my group and i managed to pull together and invent the ultimate eggdrop. i actually think that my group used all the steps in the planning process to keep the egg in one piece. i think that my team rushed things a little too much because we began to mix up ideas, and as we ran out of time were not really close to the design we had originally wanted. i think a little more time would help us become more effective, but our did not break so i would say we did great.
First we began by drawing an aray of different models and discussing which would work best. we tried spider models, pyramid beds, and boxing gym designes but in the end found a loop hole in the instructions. last minute as we were building a spider type model we had left over tape and began jokin how it we should use the tail to drop it from a lower point,. we laughed and realized that we were never told otherwise, sop we wrapped the stras around the egg for cushioning and used the tape as a tail to lower the egg.
i feel that the group worked greaty together, we all had different idea but managed to agree on a sngle answer. we planned the use of materials together, and all helped tape the egg. the weakenesses were alo our strenghths as we had so many idea but little time.
although it appeared that our egg was not 50% uncovered we also overcame that as all the members of the group came forth and hlped uncover the egg. we worked great as a group and thus achieved the goal we set out to do, however there is a negative to the 5 points, we didnt have om;lettes for dinner.....

6 comments:

Breath Ezzey said...

i strongly believe that the success of the activity had to do with having one female in the group ( me) that had you guys in check ;) j.k we did great, even thou we ran out of time and had to rush to finish it, we pulled it through in the end and thats all that matters

Anonymous said...

My team is learning from our mistakes, so you guys won't be so lucky next time!

starcraft2 said...

I was glad becuz' we had 50% egg uncover. Luckily, that has given us extra time to fix the egg and extend the tail. Good job

H said...

I agree that it would have been better if we had a bit more time because many problems arise when being rushed and things might not come out as planned.

Michael Zuchelli said...

Like your team my egg was beat, but it seemed as though you were happy with your team work, as well as your ideas. I felt the same way and was impressed how well we all worked togehter.

Breath Ezzey said...

umm hello where is your 4th blog entry mister??? tsk tsk ur slakking...ps pochetay shto tot ketaets mne napesal lol