Students will write a reflection on the design process and what can they do to make their maze better with minimum of five sentences.
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Natalie
12/1/2015 06:40:13 am
Constructing the marble maze was difficult but me and my group members succeeded because of team work. We all had our differences but we worked them all out by communicating to each other. Me and my team mates all had different ideas but we made them work out by combining our ideas together and that created our wonderful marble maze. Doing a project like this teaches you about teamwork and creativity these are two of the things you would have to be able to do to become an engineer.
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Lucas Mendes
12/1/2015 06:41:25 am
To make our maze better, we can follow specific steps of the engineering design process. We can identify more components of the problem, and we can research more about every one of our problems, and answers to solve them. We can then come up with different solutions to the problems, and then pick one solution that stands out, or is the best one out of them all. After picking the best solution, you create a prototype for your first design. Then, you test your prototype, to see if it solves your problem, and evaluate your data. Next, communicate your solutions, and lastly, redesign it, to make your final invention/innovation.
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Salar,William,Kelon
12/1/2015 06:42:06 am
Our project had a inclusion of all the obstacles required.We had multiple speed bumps, spiral, loop, drops, and a zigzag pattern.We could've added duration too the maze in able to increase the time and lower the rate.we could've used more space in able too increase surface area for the marble to increase surface tension and friction too lower the marbles rate.We needed to make the obstacles bigger.We also needed more strategic speed bumps.
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Ray
12/1/2015 07:19:45 am
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Ray
12/1/2015 07:26:34 am
Our 3d marble maze was a very hard task, But my team came up with a great idea to break a few Popsicle stick and use them to slow the marble from going fast ,but i think we could've made another loop and a lot more zigzags,But overall i think we did a good job.
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Aiden,Sebastian,Brandon
12/1/2015 07:22:55 am
Our marble maze was a success but a fail. The marble did not make to the end of the maze EACH time, it was a 50-50 chance that it will fail or finish. So to make our maze better, we have to maybe redesign the loop a little and make the end shorter. The last thing to fix our maze is to put the speed bump in a more reasonable place to make it work.
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Asha & Lauryn
12/1/2015 07:29:27 am
We could've added more obstacles . We could have added more color and made it longer than it was. Our maze met some criteria but not all we could've made our theme show more and also make it more stable than it was and make it seem like it was a smooth maze then a kinda rough going type of maze
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Morgan and Anna
12/1/2015 07:30:35 am
To make our project better we could of added more bumps to slow it down. The marble was faster then we wanted to be. We did steps of the scientific method to help us complete the maze. We had things such as bumps,loops,zigzag. We needed to add more supporting poles.
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Amy, Izzie,and Jessie
12/1/2015 07:35:33 am
We could've included more loops and zig-zags. That way it would've taken more time. Also, if we'd taken our time we probably would've gotten more done. If we spent our time more wisely, we could have come up with better ideas. Although we had speed bumps, we could've had more obstacles and overall the whole project would've been better.
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12/1/2015 07:35:39 am
Our homemade marble maze met the expectations. Although our marble did not last longer than eight seconds. We had speed bumps, a loop, a zig zag, and a drop. We could have made the speed bumps more effective. Some times it would get stuck in the loop. In conclusion our marble maze met the most of the requirements and worked well.
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