We kept learning all through the last two weeks of school, right up until the last full day!!
On Tuesday, we had an engineering problem to solve.
Engineering: We had a contest. We had teams. The team got a packet of 3x5 cards, 30 cm of tape, a meter stick, and a Rubik's cube.We got 10 minutes to research on "index card towers" and then each team got 30 minutes to try to make the tallest tower of index cards that could hold up a Rubik's cube.
We got to do as many iterations as we wanted. Iteration means you try it once, then you "tweak" it to make it better. Then you test it. Then you try it again. "Tweak" means make a little change.
We had to think about what happened when our tower fell down. Then we could make a change to it.
It was harder than you think to make a tall tower!
It was also sometimes hard to work in a team because some of us work better alone. But we tried.
The tallest was Avory's
at 74.5 cm!
