Image: Si Yuan trying to make our structure stand... haha.
Yesterday, Mr. Chung randomly popped a structure challenge to the class.
We were assigned groups and told to plan a tall, but stable structure (aesthetics came last).
In group 2, we decided to go with a triangular base made up with 2 pages of newspaper.
Unfortunately, we did not know that paper becomes heavier when you roll it up, and we taped 2 rolled newspapers at the top of our structure...
which lead to DESTRUCTION! It didn't stand.
To fix our structure, we should've either made the base stronger/change the base, or not tape the rolled newspapers, because our middle newspapers were not strong enough to support it.
The winning group had a very strong base; it consisted of legs (tripod) that were rolled and had the most mass.
It was a good and fun experience to have everyone's input, although we failed :D!
You attempted, so that's part-winning :)
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