As we were asked by professor Kurpis, the goal of every group was to built a protection around the egg so that we can drop it without breaking it. We did take step 1 in our group: we decided to use the known trick that if you squeeze an egg lenghtwise even as hard as you can, it will never break. That in mind, our goal was clearly determined, and was to build our equipment in such way that our egg will be dropped lenghwise. So we started discussing our ideas and drawing them, while still keeping an eye on the time available for planning.
At some point of our planning, we realized that our main idea we have been working on may not allow us to reach our goal. In other words we did take step 2 as well by deciding to work on a backup idea in case we have hard time realizing our main idea, which was likely to occur based on critics some members of the group made of that idea.
We originally were not planning on taking step 3, but because we took step 2 by evaluating where we stand from our goal, we realized that we needed step 3. Thus we did work on a couple extra ideas in case we receive our material and had trouble realizing our main plan.
In our group, we did not take step 4 by assigning roles to each member. After we decided which planned idea we were going to put in action, we all got into it, going with the flow, some cutting tape, some running for the scissors, some holding the throws to be taped together, some occasionally looking at the clock and reminding us how much time we have left...
I can assume that we did take step 5, because after our work was done, we realized that we needed to reduce the tape we have used, and this in order to follow the important rule of the assignment that %50 of the egg must show. We also decided that we will send the shortest team member to throw the egg to minimize the chances of breaking the egg.
Finally and fortunately, after all that work, our group dropped the egg without breaking it and besides all the fun we have had while completing the experiment, we also earned 5 extra points.
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Ha..."we" didn't participate much during the whole process...but yea it worked out fine and I am grateful to get that five points. I agreed, we did skip assigning roles...we were never clear on exactly what we should do, everybody just gather around and discussing which plan would work out best for the egg. Do you think we could improve our planning in any way? (even though our original plan succeeded in the end.) We did have a lot of back ups but we never really use any, since the first one worked out fine. What do you think? -Chen
It seemed like your group was a little hesitant about the plan of action you were taking and it was a little unorganized. Naturally because of the time constraints I can sympathize on how you guys felt during the project. The bottom line is that your team did succeed in dropping the egg safely and that all that really matters in the end so I congratulate your team on a job well done!
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