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Using cardboard, ductape, tinfoil, sticks, straws, and hot glue,I created a boat. We made the boat to compete against other boats to see how many pennies we could hold. We held a total of 341 pennies and won the competition.
During this process, I learned skills to help things float. For example, My team added plastic straws to the bottom and hot glued the ends. This sealed the air inside to help it float.
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. My project connects to innovative designer because we added things to the boat we thought would help it float based on theories.
A challenge I overcame on this project was having to much weight in one spot. I was able to do it by moving the pennies around evenly to distribute the weight. This would make the boat not let water in.
Given a chance to do this again, I would seal off the middle more, or the bottom of it. The reason why I would change it is that it would make it less heavy. I would seal the middle more because that seemed to be the only reason the boat sunk, (Water was getting in from the bottom.)
Hastings High School Career and Technical Education Program offers Agriculture, Business Management, Computer Programming, Construction Trades, Culinary Arts, Digital Multimedia, Engineering Design, Finance, Insurance, Marketing. My project connects to the construction trades CTE program at Hastings High School. My project connects to careers in engineering.
In this project I am working in a group of 3, the materials my group will need for this project is cardboard, glue, tin foil, and straws. The plan for this projects is to make a boat out of cardboard and hold as much pennies as possible. The unique qualities our project will have is the different materials on the boat.
Daily log,
My group started cutting the cardboard into the shape of the boat.
We added sides to the boat, making water less able to be let in and to hold more pennies.
We started adding the straws to the bottom of the boat and put hot glue in them to seal air to make them more floatable.
My group and I finished working on the boat and made final add on.
We competed to see how many pennies our boat could hold compared to everyone else boat.
In the end our boat could hold a total of 341 pennies.
These photos show the early construction of the boat like adding duck tape, sticks, and cardboard to the boat to make it float better.
This is a photo of all the pennies on a table that our boat held. The total was 341.
My Movie 1.movThis is a video my team made of us putting the pennies in the boat.
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