Our team created a list of hobbies each team member enjoys.  Then, we selected one hobby for each team member to research.  After that we took a vote and down selected to our top 4 hobbies - swimming, golf, bowling, and rock climbing.  We completed researching these hobbies, down-voted options as a team, and ultimately chose our hobby for our project - BOWLING!  7 out of 9 teammates picked this as one of their two preferred hobbies.

According to our research, the majority of people do not bowl because it is not accessible/don't know how to do it well, they have no one to do it with, and it's too expensive.

We have many resources from interviews, tours, user & expert surveys, books and websites.

We used a Kanban chart to track our work.  

• Select a team hobby by end of August - Check!

• Send out two surveys to understand what makes people want to or not want to bowl - Check!

• Identify potential solutions to the problem and identify the best one by early September - Check!

• Create our first prototype by the end of September - Check!

• Iterate on our first prototype - Check!

• Create our slides for competition by the end of October - Check!

• Iterate our project after Regionals - Check!

• Put our Bowling Scavenger Hunt into action- Check!

• Presented our project in the library in December- Check!

We created an interactive sculpture to increase interest in bowling. This prototype features:

A bowling ball (bowling ball splits apart to reveal a bookmark that can be taken with them)

1. Information on Kids Bowl Free, Rules of Bowling, How to bowl

2. More Jokes

3. Scavenger Hunt Details

A 12 button interactive electronic joke and trivia game board created using Python and displayed using a Raspberry Pi and Display

1. See a funny bowling video

2. See an advertisement for our bowling scavenger hunt

3. Post pictures of themselves at a bowling center on social media for a prize

4. Can hunt for 10 artistic bowling pins in select bowling alleys in southeastern Wisconsin

5. Listen to Jokes and trivia

We used our imaginations to create artistic bowling pins to put around bowling alleys for our scavenger hunt.

We  competed at the Marquette Regional and after communicating our project, won 1st place champions award! We also got the 1st place champions award at Sectionals and 1st place Innovation Project Award at State!  We are traveling next to the Western Edge Open in Long Beach, CA!