Spaghetti Tower Challenge

Analyzing Questions:

1. My team began the process by thinking of the design that would be the most stable. I suggested we make a kind of pyramid shape, my team turned this idea down and continued discussing what to do without me. Then, 5 minutes later, EJ said we should make a pyramid shape.

2. I don't really know what was easy or what was hard because my team rarely talked to me and mostly ignored me.

3. I think this is suited for ages 10-12. Mostly because it's a childish activity, and once you get older, you lose that sense of teamwork and working together. Being 13, I feel this activity doesn't suit me.

Leadership

- There was no leader for our team. Everybody, except for Izrael and I, contributed.

- Designating someone as a leader would have been useful as it would have made understanding each other easier.

Collaboration

- It sounded like arguing and complaining about someone's ideas being ignored or freaking out because the tower was falling.

- No. Only Mikkel and EJ's ideas were excepted. Mine weren't, because both Mikkel and EJ were ignoring me, and Izrael was looking at his phone the whole time.

- It dissipated fast as soon as EJ said, "Shut up Cyan." I also got frustrated when Antonio came over and flicked the top of our tower, making it tilt.

- No only two teammates were.

Planning

- There was no plan. We just did whatever we could with the materials provided.

- The plan would have worked if Antonio didn't come over and flick the top of our project.

- Yes. We ran out of materials and our tower started to fall so Mikkel and EJ tried to break it down, unsuccessfully, and ruined the project, while laughing hysterically for some reason.

- What worked (sort of) was the tepee shape we created under the tower for support, although it didn't hold the weight on top.

- The tower spiraling vertically up. It leaned against the top of the table, and just after I said, "OK guys, don' t touch it now..." Antonio came over and flicked it.

All About Me

- I learned that I am not accepted in a team and that my teammates judge me first before asking for help.

- I am a leader, I don't work that well in groups who don't contribute, and I struggle under a time limit. I try to fight the frustration and this usually gets work done, but it still makes me mad.

- Trying to make a plan and volunteering to leader the team first.