Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Cardboard Canoe

Total Achievements: 13

Design Achievements:
"Define and Brainstorm"
-Our originial Idea was to have a hexagonal sitting area with two triangular cardboar cut-outs placed in the front and back
"Criteria":
-It must float at least one person from our team

"Contraints":
-We must only use cardboard and duct tape
-Must have a 3" side wall
-All outer parts of the boat must be covered in duct tape (as shown below)

"Sketch Ideas"

"Prototype Ideas"
Build Achievements:
"Build It"
"Early Bird Gets the Achievement"
Team Achievements:
"The Farthest"
"The Longest"
"Videographer"
Reflection Achievements:
"Redesign":
-For our redesign, i think i would want to try out our first design, and see how it goes

"Make Your Own Achievement":
- Each team has to make their own paddle and only use that to propel themselves in one race

Feedback":
Things Needed For Improvement:
-We needed to have stronger sides
-A much better paddle
-Better connections on the joints
-Both the front and back could have been the same size
-More power behind the boat
Things We Did Well:
-Very water tight
-Moved well through the water
-Layering of the duct tape



As you can see even after our boat traveled to the other side of the pool and back, twice, it still didn't take in that much water

2 comments:

  1. Nice final shot of how dry you kept your boat. That really tells the story of how effective your design was.

    Make sure you justify the achievements you're claiming with photos, etc.!

    Thanks

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  2. Also, since you're on a new blog, make sure you copy and paste your old posts in so we have a repository of your effort. It's important that people can see all the stuff you've done!

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