Before anything else, I must say that our planning/crafting lesson was one of the best classroom experiences I have had in Baruch so far. It would have been the outright best if our egg hadn't cracked. But hey...no complains, really.
Our team had set the goal to have a cushioned base and we brainstormed for ideas to achieve that goal. Although we came up with quite a few ideas, we kept jumping onto the newest idea for development and in essence, we did not have a proper alternate plan. We worked well together in both the planning and building phases, but we did not specify any tasks for any member of the team. But the reason we did not have to specify any tasks may have been because our team members constantly volunteered pro-actively for tasks at hand.
Our execution of our plan was very rushed and we were not able to replicate the design we had in mind. This was because we failed to evaluate our resources properly and were left with unused materials at the end.
All in all, I think we did a pretty good job of working together. We achieved our goal of making a cushioned base for the egg. Our downfall was in the fact that we neglected the sides of the egg.
Your group was very similar to mine. Everyone was throwing out great Ideas and we should've put a little bit of each Idea all together. Sorry to hear about your egg tho. Lol. Our group was very confident when we dropped our egg, but sadly there was a scratch or so on the egg and the proffessor said that it was cracked. =(
ReplyDeleteLooking back, I think, everybody would change something if we had the chance to do it again. Time is always a stress factor, which makes people to rush into their goal without carefully planning. My team also did not specify any task to members and as in your group, in mine too, everybody wanted to do all the tasks. Our egg did not survive also, but was an exciting project ..for sure.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that your group worked together. Unfortunately our was a little mess. But one thing I'm agree with I wish that more professors would bring such interesting exercises to engage students in more practical way.
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ReplyDeleteProactive group members are always a plus to the group chemsistry! Unfortunately, finding the right group chemistry is very difficult, especially when the members are randomly assigned. My group also failed at replicating the ideas that we had on paper so it's okay!
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