I do not have access to any photos of our FINAL tower, I have photos of our prototype, but we completely changed our design in the end.

Curricular Response

The egg dropper and the golf tower challenge helped me understand the scientific method by doing a few things. 1. The Egg Dropper helped me understand the scientific method by showing me that even if you’re hypothesis is justified and good you can still mess up on the experiment showing that you will need to do the experiment more than once. 2. The Golf Tower challenge helped me understand by showing that you and your partner should discuss your plan before jumping to the experimenting process. (meaning that you should focus on planning and making a good plan rather than jumping into the experiment unprepared.) 3. The Egg Dropper helped me understand by showing me not to always expect what I think will happen in the ending will always happen.

Core Competency Self Assessment and Creative Thinking

I am proud of my Egg Dropper out of the two. I feel how I thought to make it was a good idea I just did not execute it as well as I had hoped to. I made sure to keep some extra material aside incase it were to all fail so I would still have something remaining. A challenge I had to work around was not having a part of a material, it ended up disappearing so I had to make my project without it. I overcame that challenge by saving my materials to make sure nothing was wasted. Doing the two challenges I learned more about the whole Scientific Method all the steps. I demonstrated that I can create new things by making the two projects successful enough to be judged in the competitions. I demonstrated that I can build on others ideas when my Golf Tower challenge was falling apart I tried to keep part of my partners idea in mind while coming up with ideas of my own to try to make it better. When trying new things, I expect setbacks and failure and use them to develop my ideas. An example of this from the Scientific Method labs would be me expecting my Golf Tower to fail due to the fact of lacking communication.

-Blake 09/29/23