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Paper Supports

Back to Mr. Leohr's Class
Materials Required:
4 pieces of paper
2 feet of masking tape

Goal:
To practice the design process, including planning, predicting performance, and teamwork to achieve the same goal.

Description:
You will be building a paper support system using only the materials you are given.  The goal is to support as many books as high as possible off of the floor with the following constraints:
  • Before you are allowed to begin construction, you must plan what you are going to do and estimate your performance. 
  • You must have a minimum height of 2 inches and a maximum height of 8 inches
  • You must be able to support a minimum of 10 books
  • You may not cut or tear the paper
  • Your system must be a single connected unit
    • Placing a piece of paper under or on top of your components does not constitute a single unit
    • Nor does using a piece of tape to “connect” components
However, before you are allowed to begin construction, you must plan what you are going to do and estimate your performance.  After a predefined amount of time, all construction must stop.

Your performance will be measured using the following tool:
Performance Score = 20B + 80(H - 2) - (T - 240)
  • B is the number of books successfully suspended off of the floor
  • H is the number of inches the books are suspended off of the floor
  • T is the number of seconds it takes to construct your support system
Remember that construction time does NOT include planning time.Construction time starts when you begin construction and ends when you place the first book on your support system.

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