On Friday we had our first design challenge. It was very challenging and also fun because we needed to come up with different ideas on how to catch a tennis ball with just 5 pieces of balsa wood and a piece of string. Since the balsa wood was weak and we only had 5 pieces it was very challenging to create something that would hold more than 1 tennis ball. We ended up rebuilding our tennis ball catcher up to 4 times and sat there thinking of ideas for about 30 minutes. In the end we tied for 1st place after finalized design caught 2 tennis balls. Our catcher was basically a box that easily caught the balls and it had a guard made out of shortened balsa wood sticks around the edges to make sure tennis balls wouldn't fall out.
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May 2015
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