Thursday, October 04, 2018

Building the Tallest Tower

[FIRST YEAR] Introduction to Creative Play




Covered today:

Building a tower for an egg


Today in ‘Intro to creative play’ we had to do egg based challenges. The first task was to make the tallest tower to hold the egg in. We only had limited amounts of material like thin construction paper used for whiteboards, Masking tape, and string to make a strong, stable and appealing tower. At first it was hard figuring out how my team could was going to do this. So as a team we quickly planned out the design and we came up with a tower made up with triangle based pyramids (as seen in the image above which I thought was the strongest structure for the egg. Ffion was the team leader of the project and I was the co-leader. Our tower passed the appeal, stability, and purpose categories which made us pass the first round but then Annabeth and the other guy (I can’t remember his name) stepped up a little by telling us we were going to drop our eggs from the third floor down to the ground… (Continued in the Next Blog)