Writing Class Challenge, Robotic Arm Challenge.

Robotic Arm Challenge

By Ashley

Did you successfully complete the challenge? Describe how it went

I thought that the challenge went well because…we had more than one idea if one plan did not work we would do another one.

What are the rules, equipment and tools that you used for this challenge? If someone else read this would they understand how to play?

A meter ruler was used to measure the distance that we needed put the coke bottle

You must raise the coke bottle up 15cm high before placing it down.  You have 15 pages of newspaper, 1 meter of tape, and 1 meter of string. You also had scissors but only used to cut things, and you weren't allowed to add it to your design.

What are 2 more aspects of your design that you think worked well?

• The paper structure we made was very strong and did not break while we were lifting the bottle.
• We could manage to lift the bottle 15 cm of the ground.
• We lifted the bottle more that 80 cm in front of us.

What are 2 more aspects of your design that you think that did not work well or as intended?

• The lasso of string was hard to pull tight around the bottle and we had to redo it twice.
• Our team could not manage to lift the bottle past the 1 meter ruler.
• The bottle was really heavy therefore it was very hard to move it without tipping over.

The name “Robotic Arm Challenge” is a good name for this challenge, can you think of 2 more names that you could give this challenge?

• Levitating coke magic
• Magic Coke Bottle
• Flying bottle

Room 11 and 12 are thinking of doing the same challenge, can you think of any tips and tricks that you could give them that would help them do the challenge better?

• I would think of a different way of holding up the bottle instead of string because the string struggled to hold the Coke bottles weight.

• Make the design so two people can hold the string on each side of the meter ruler.

• Make sure the strongest people in the team hold up the bottle when you are trying to get the bottle over.

You had only 5 pieces of equipment to use for this challenge, these were:

- Coke Bottle

- News Paper

- Tape

- String

If you did this challenge tomorrow what equipment or rules would you allow, switch out or take away?

- I would add in different shaped bottles some with wider lids than others so that we could pick them up in different ways.

- I would add more string.