Paper Tower!
Materials Required: Paper and 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 tower using only the materials you are given. The group with the best performance wins the contest.
The performance is weighted based on the following items:
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 = 10H - 67N - Z(T - 300)
Goal: To practice the design process, including planning, predicting performance, and teamwork to achieve the same goal.
Description: You will be building a paper tower using only the materials you are given. The group with the best performance wins the contest.
The performance is weighted based on the following items:
- number of sheets of paper used
- height of the tower
- time it takes to construct
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 = 10H - 67N - Z(T - 300)
- H is the height of the tower in inches
- N is the number of sheets of paper used
- T is the construction time in seconds
- Z is a weighting factor.