https://padlet.com/9489436313/9x6c97tg6jkz en-us 2017-02-07 19:13:36 UTC 2017-02-09 19:13:00 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Tent.png 9489436313 https://padlet.com/9489436313/9x6c97tg6jkz/wish/152272731 The task/problem I was given to solve was to make a spaghetti noodle tower from noodles and marshmallows. I believed I helped my team mentally with the ideas. Next time I think I should be there rather than be absent.]]> 2017-02-07 19:25:52 UTC https://padlet.com/9489436313/9x6c97tg6jkz/wish/152272731 9489436313 https://padlet.com/9489436313/9x6c97tg6jkz/wish/152273224 Some ideas my group had come up with were some things like this. We thought of two differently structured cubes, one without much of a base, one with a lot of a base. There was another one that we thought of that was like a 3D octagon, it cost the least, but had no support.]]> 2017-02-07 19:27:12 UTC https://padlet.com/9489436313/9x6c97tg6jkz/wish/152273224 9489436313 https://padlet.com/9489436313/9x6c97tg6jkz/wish/152274414 For our base, we decided to go with a cube base/square bottom. It was made of 4 noodles and 4 marshmallows. Our budget was 36$ and we used 60 noodles and about 35 marshmallows.]]> 2017-02-07 19:30:18 UTC https://padlet.com/9489436313/9x6c97tg6jkz/wish/152274414 9489436313 https://padlet.com/9489436313/9x6c97tg6jkz/wish/152275085 The plan we had went with was the first one that did not cost a ton of money, but slightly got the job done. Unfortunately, we were unable to reach 18 inches since we didn't expect the noodles to be so weak and thin. So our tower didn't even stay up, but I estimate it was about 10-15 inches tall. The hardest part about creating my tower was keeping it up while building. Something easy during the challenge was when we were putting together the bottom, when we were just piecing it together. Since we where unable to create a tower, the things that went wrong was, we did not anticipate for the noodles to be so thin and weak. We also thought the marshmallows would hold a little bit better.]]> 2017-02-07 19:32:04 UTC https://padlet.com/9489436313/9x6c97tg6jkz/wish/152275085 9489436313 https://padlet.com/9489436313/9x6c97tg6jkz/wish/152582102 Somethings I would do next time would be to ask the teacher about the materials she would be handing out. I would also try to improve a little bit faster. Based on my experience, we should come up with different options depending on the physical properties of the materials. Rather than going with the cube approach, I should go with more of a pyramid eiffel tower shape.]]> 2017-02-08 19:01:39 UTC https://padlet.com/9489436313/9x6c97tg6jkz/wish/152582102 9489436313 https://padlet.com/9489436313/9x6c97tg6jkz/wish/152584330 The noodles that were in tension were the horizontal ones in the second layer. They were constantly pulling apart. The noodles that were feeling compression were the vertical ones holding the first and second layer together. The top part was seriously heavy to those noodles.]]> 2017-02-08 19:06:24 UTC https://padlet.com/9489436313/9x6c97tg6jkz/wish/152584330