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During this assignment I used the creative thinking competency. When building something like a Rube Goldberg machine you need to be able to use your imagination, and then solve problems to turn your imagination into reality. For example, we needed to create a bell, because our machine’s goal was to make a bell noise. We didn’t have access to anything bell like, so we had to start thinking. We started off with making a cup with a marble inside to make a rattle noise, but that didn’t fit our goal. We brainstormed together to figure out what to use, and we came up with using a weight and a metal stand. This worked very well, and brought our bell idea to life. As you can see in the videos, the bell makes a clear noise. This is proof of our creative thinking being applied into the project. We also used some critical thinking skills to figure out a way to generate power for the weight to hit the metal stand. One strategy we used to come up with new ideas, was to grab an assortment of items and just play around trying them out. In the pictures above you can see that we have very different items. Shown by the pictures, our strategy made sure we wouldn’t have to use track the whole way through the project (there was a limit to amount of track you could use). While doing this one of my groupmates found a hotwheel launcher that we ended up using in our final build. We used lots of creative thinking during this project, and I personally found it very fun. I think the Rube Goldberg project involved all the core competencies, but the thinking competencies stood out more to me than the others.