The goal we wanted to achieve was to keep an egg from cracking when it was dropped from a 10 feet height. First of all, we reached an agreement that to protect the egg we need to create some space around the egg. Then based on the amount of material we had, each of us expressed the ideas we had in mind. There were eight people in our group, so many options were presented during the discussion. Some of our teammates even started to build a model, which was a "basket", with some paper. In the end, most of us voted for the "basket" plan since our teammates proved it was enfoceable and we were running out of time. However, because of the shortage of time, we didn't get a chance to talk about how the "basket" plan worked. When the execution time began, the situation became kind of akward: only two people were working on the plan, the rest of us had no idea wat was going on there. Forturnately, we got our "Bob" done at the last moment.
Although in the end our "Bob" was broken, it was a very good lesson for us. On the one hand, getting the work done is important; on the other hand, using time effectively and inspiring people to engage positively are also very important.
To me, the most important thing that i benefited in this project was the fact that my group work as a team to accoplish the process from start to the end.
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