7P6 Boats

Using tinfoil/tinkercad, I created a tinfoil rectangular boat that held 201 pennies and a 3D boat that held 264 pennies. I created my 3D boat because my group and I wanted to see if it will float in the water and hold pennies like the tinfoil ones did. I created my tinfoil boat because I wanted to see if the boat will be sustainable to hold objects in the water.

During this process, I learned how to make a tinfoil boat that will float in the water while holding as many pennies. I also learned how to create a 3D boat design on tinkercad and how to print it.

The 7 standards of the class are Empowered Learner, Digital Citizen, Knowledge Constructor, Innovative Designer, Computational Thinker, Creative Communicator, and Global Collaborator. My project ties to Innovative Designer because I had to create two boats that would float in the water while holding many objects without sinking.

A challenge I overcame on this project was I couldn't get the sides tall enough to not let water in. I was able to do it by completly recreating my boat. Given a chance to do this again, I would change my boat shape from a rectangle to a square. The reason why I would change it is because from everyone elses boat that was a square held many more pennies then the rectangle boats. This project connect to careers in designing because I had to design my own boat.