Straw+tower+write+up

A) What went well- After working for many days we accomplished the task of keeping our straw tower standing at 10 feet for over a minute. We figured out that building 3 squares out of straws and making them into triangles would be both efficient and effective. Dividing up the work equally helped our group achieve our goal rapidly. Our entire group made the squares while Alex made the triangles and Cody and Ian built the tower.

B) What obstacles did your group encounter? - Our group ran into several problems while working on this project. The first problem was when a few people started to destroy our project. With this problem we had to work harder to reassemble our project and get it back to standing tall. A second problem that occurred was we had to go pick a design that we though would be fast and easy to build. Our first idea didn’t work well because it took to much time and to many materials were required. In the end we came up with the triangle idea. A final problem we had were a few distractions. When we were working on our project and not everyone was working efficiently on our project it slowed our group down in creating the final product but we managed to overcome it.  A) From this project I learned many things. The first thing I learned was the teamwork is substantial for getting this project done. Without working as a team our project may have never been finished. A second thing I learned was that even if one idea fails such as our first to keep trying new ones until you find one that works in this case our second idea proved to be the winner. Finally, I learned that no matter who your working with you should try to work your best with them and use your problem solving skills in order to accomplish the task at hand. B)  If I were to do this project again I would do a few things differently. First I would try to get a little more organized and try to work more efficiently and rapidly to get our work done sooner. Also I would try to think out a good idea before starting to just build the idea. Along would doing a few things differently I would also do many things the same. I would keep the same group if I had the possibility because I thought we worked well as a group. Also I would try to do the same idea as we had as our final project but I would try to revamp it a little and make it sturdier.