Came to our area in the class. We did a PowerPoint presentation. Also, for our pitch Katie brought a MDOT shirt and her bridge from last year.
Friday, September 27, 2013
Week 2
This week our team had to work on a pitch for our English 10 class. We had to do a semi formal presentation to whoever
Friday, September 20, 2013
Week 1
This week we have discussed how we are going to "pitch" our project to our class. We have also started designing our bridge by looking at our past bridge designs. We have two different bridge designs that could be used; one would be a bascule bridge( Draw bridge) while the other would be a floating bridge. We have also started our writing proposal for the project.The writing proposal is usually about about 20-30 pages long. All this week we have updated our blog. :)
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
We're Team Bob the Builders 2.0
We are made up of Blake Macias, Sierra Coughlin, and Katie Gerhardt and we are going to blog about our journey through redoing our bridge project from our Freshman Year of high school. The bridge project is sponsored by MDOT every year and is a state wide competition between 9th and 10th graders. Our task is to build a bridge made of only balsa wood and glue that can hold the most weight while weighing the least. If our proposal gets accepted by MDOT then our team goes to Lansing MI to compete against other teams around the state. At the competition, we have to make a presentation that we will present to engineers from across the country and they will judge us. After we present we will then go to the testing room and test our bridge, and they will then tally the scores using the Strength to weight ratio (which you find by dividing the strength of the bridge by the weight of the bridge). The engineers will then choose the winners.
We decided to redo our bridge because the last time we did it everyone failed in different ways. Blake didn't even make it to Lansing because his proposal didn't get accepted. Both Sierra and Katie both got disqualified for the bridges not following the specifications. We were all on different teams last year and decided to combine to try to have the best chance of succeeding.
To accomplish our goal of finishing the bridge before the competition, we will work on the proposal and presentation and try to finish them before the competition starts, so we will not have to rush at the last minute.
We are made up of Blake Macias, Sierra Coughlin, and Katie Gerhardt and we are going to blog about our journey through redoing our bridge project from our Freshman Year of high school. The bridge project is sponsored by MDOT every year and is a state wide competition between 9th and 10th graders. Our task is to build a bridge made of only balsa wood and glue that can hold the most weight while weighing the least. If our proposal gets accepted by MDOT then our team goes to Lansing MI to compete against other teams around the state. At the competition, we have to make a presentation that we will present to engineers from across the country and they will judge us. After we present we will then go to the testing room and test our bridge, and they will then tally the scores using the Strength to weight ratio (which you find by dividing the strength of the bridge by the weight of the bridge). The engineers will then choose the winners.
We decided to redo our bridge because the last time we did it everyone failed in different ways. Blake didn't even make it to Lansing because his proposal didn't get accepted. Both Sierra and Katie both got disqualified for the bridges not following the specifications. We were all on different teams last year and decided to combine to try to have the best chance of succeeding.
To accomplish our goal of finishing the bridge before the competition, we will work on the proposal and presentation and try to finish them before the competition starts, so we will not have to rush at the last minute.
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