Supply Drop

Supply Drop - PDF Printable

Supply Drop

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Design a way to land supplies gently. Use a plastic cup with 3 dirham coins and other materials you feel useful to land without tipping, spilling, or hitting the ground hard.

DUE: Before the next D&I class next week

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Team 1 is stranded on the dark side of Mars. YOU have to design a way to safely drop supplies from the air!

Find a way to drop a cup with 3 dirham coins so that it does not tip over, does not spill, and lands gently.

Step 1: Review the Empathy and Define steps

5 min

Step 2 Brainstorm: 20 min

Step 3 Prototype: 10 min

Step 4 Built & Test: 30 -60 min

Remember - Innovators Never Copy!

You can improve by observing what can be better, then adding, or changing something to make it your own!

These are just for support and ideas.... nothing more.

Video Resources

These videos are here to help you generate ideas only, please don't copy these projects, but use them to design your own.

*** NO ADDITIONAL VIDEO RESOURCES FOR THIS PROJECT ***

Video Walkthrough

Picture Walkthrough

1. Empathy & Define

Choose different methods of dropping your supplies and complete the sentence.

2. Ideate (Brainstorm)

As fast as you can, brainstorm different ideas!

*** Remember: The goal at this stage is to come up with AS MANY IDEAS AS YOUR CAN, not to take timing planning what you will build!

Feel free to print many pages, use scrap paper, or digitally draw as much as you can.

4. Prototype

Build!

Insert photographs of the best design you chose to build from the many brainstorms you sketched out.

5. Test

Does your design .... DO what is it supposed to DO?

Post a picture of your design being used.

Ready to get started?

Print the PDF copy of the plan (not required)

2. Research flight and air resistance

3. Brainstorm MANY ideas as FAST as you can.

4. Choose your 2 best ideas, polish, tweak, and improve the plans then BUILD them.

5. Test your designs and record data.

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