For this lesson, we had to drop an egg from a certain height, and make sure it don't crack when it hits the bucket. We had 9 straws and around 2 feet of tape.
In the 5 steps of planning, I personally think that my group skimmed through step 1 really quickly. We knew we wanted to be successful, and we knew that we had 25 mins to plan this and 10 mins to make it. We also skimmed through step 2. We didn't plan out who was gonna do what. We just did what everyone else was doing, trying to design the device that will protect our egg and then make it happen. We ended up rushing the design stage, because we all forgot about it till the last 2 mins. For step 3, we spent a bit more time than the first two steps. We thought of a few ideas, and then went with the easiest one. I guess our device had a strong base, but the sides were left kind of unprotected. For step 4, as I explained earlier, we choose the easiest design, and we all just rushed on trying to build the protection device. I guess we didn't do that well of a job deciding who would do what. For step 5, we all knew that we were going to finish on time, but we didn't really know about the quality of our work. We went over it a few times with the extra time we had, and we thought that it was perfectly fine. But when we actually went up and dropped the egg, it cracked. At first we thought that it was perfectly fine, and we succeeded, only to find out a few short seconds later, that our precious egg has cracked.
I guess our planning for the device was decent. We did everything we wanted to, and the device came out kind of like how we wanted it to. The only downfall of our planning was that we did not give each other individual roles, and I guess that wasted some time. But in the end, it was fun, we got to know what kind of people we work as when we are put under pressure.
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On looking at Step 2 in the view that everyone was suppose to be assigned a role to be more organized, I would agree with you that, in the beginning, my group was all scattered around on that. We all just jumped into the design of our egg device. No one came out to be a leader, which I think I should've since I want to be a manager one day. On a good note for your group, I liked that you guys came up with different ideas. My group just went all in with the first idea we had. And worse, we didn't leave the air open for at least other ideas to be considered. Well, now we know what went wrong. Hopefully, next time we'll work better under pressure.
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