Representation of the project: to get a better understanding of how earthquake proof buildings work, we had to construct a building made of spaghetti and blue tac. My group, Caitlyn, Asha and I, had to research how engineers try to make buildings (in places where earthquakes occur often) to stay strong during an earthquake. We then had to put the buildings up to the test and shake the construction to see if it would stay up and see if we had built the tower well enough for it to stay up.
Overview of the engineering process: before we started to design the spaghetti tower, we had to research ways that engineers make buildings earthquake proof. We followed some strategies that they used, like cross braces, sheer walls and we provided extra spaghetti support in our prototype. Some changes that I would make to my design to improve my group in the future was to distrubite the workload slightly more. Some people in the group were doing a bit more than other people, but we all did come in handy at one point.
Collaboration: since I was the project manager, I kept everyone on track and making sure that we submit all of the style lessons on time and that everyone is on track. This was helpful in my group because some people in my group might be slightly forgetful so for me to remind them to submit and complete a few activities helped them a lot. Asha was the equipment manager, and she helped decide how much money we were gonna spend on the spaghetti and blue tac, and collected everything which was good while Caitlyn and I were working on our style and other important things in the project. Caitlyn was communicating with other people from different groups and classes and fed us feedback to help improve our design. All of these skills from each other helped us be brought together as a group and to get the best outcome of the project as we could.