When I heard that we were going to be starting our Team X projects, I was thrilled. I had already seen the work of other 8th graders from past years (including my brother) so I kind of already had an idea of what we were going to do. I was also determined to beat my brother’s score.
The Team X project works like this. You join a group and decide what materials you're going to use to drop an egg from two heights. From the first floor to the ground floor and from the roof of a building to the ground. There's a catch though. Each material costs a set amount of money and your limit is 80 million dollars.
The reason we did this project was to understand how real life engineers/scientists have to accomplish certain tasks with certain constraints, like money and materials. Along with the obvious learning of how gravity works.
Since I was absent the first day we actually worked on the project with our group, I'm going to write about the second class where we were working. My group was with Julie and Ahmed (Al Wahaibi). When I came to class our group had already decided on a name, The Revival. Our egg’s name was going to be named Esperanza (meaning hope in Spanish). My group thought of the idea of putting the egg in a box with foam peanuts. Straws and string were supposed to be used to attach it to the parachute, which was a plastic cover.
After sketching out the plan and buying the materials, we got to work. We successfully completed building the parachute attached to the straws and the box with foam peanuts, but still needed to do some adjustments, like filling the holes with tape.
Next class I hope to tie any loose ends (literally) and test our project. The thing that I most worry about is that if it will float or not. A small part of me is actually hoping it will be dysfunctional, that way we would actually make some tweaks to our project
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