On Monday, 8th of September 2014, we as a group did a marshmallow challenge. We got 20 minutes to built a tallest tower or skyscraper with materials given; spaghetti sticks, tapes, strings with one marshmallow on top of the tower as the indicator. The group started to brainstorm fast, but I thought back through a real life construction of a modern building. every buildings have base, a wide area and perimeter which makes it to stand tough and doesn't collapse. At first, our team has some argument with a questions of what if. we made it but still not strong enough. Then we think a little bit physics stuff, and voila, the base is strong. One of my team tied each ends with strings so it supported. We won because we were the tallest of all. we got a bag of marshmallow, then shared it to the team and others too.
After the challenge, we were given 2 problems. In the same group, we had to come out with creative solutions. the lecturer told us that we could come out with illogical and silly ways, which made us to laugh at each others' ideas. We have fun time, shares ideas, mocking each other for the silliest ideas. The 1st problem is 'there is a hole in your fence', but the fence was the boundary between your garden and the neighbor's garden. But things get worse because the neighbor has chickens and they kept coming to your lawn and destroying your precious flowers. So find a way to prevent the flocks to intruded your property. The 2nd problem is about a bee enters your house and there are flowers in a vase near the window and a painting of a rose. but the problem is that the bee is more attracted to the painting instead the real ones, and the question is of course 'Why?'.
My team are okay, using some illogical or logical or silly answers. We didn't have a hard time on communication because our system is those who have a light bulb beside their heads, write them down immediately.
group members:
sabrina - nursabrinahussain.blogspot.com
hui ting - kewpiemaycry.blogspot.com
akshay - rakshay19.blogspot.com
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