Nasa Crane Project Report

Nasa Crane In this project we had to design a crane that could hold the most batteries. We only had a few materials to create our cranes. The materials were a box, three pencils, string, paper cups, a paperclip, and duct tape. With these materials you had to design a crane that could hold the most batteries without breaking and it had to raise six inches. You first had to define the problem, then you had to establish a design, then you had to build your design. Then after you built it you would test it. Then after that you would redesign to try and improve it. What I liked about this project was many different things. I love competing so competing with my other classmates made it fun. I like to build things so I liked the building part because …show more content…
If your egg survived the fall then you design was a success, however my egg did not survive and me and my partner had to do the next step of the engineering process which was redesign. After we redesigned we tested it again and it was still unsuccessful. Even though my project was unsuccessful twice I still enjoyed and learned a lot from it.
I like a lot about this project. One thing that I liked was the actual project itself. I have always wanted to try to do an egg drop challenge. So the project was very fun. I also liked the competition with the other classmates. Even though I lost it was still fun competing with my other classmate and it was fun seeing their designs. I also liked how we got to do our own design and we did not have to follow a certain way to do it. With doing all this and having fun I still learned a lot from …show more content…
Whichever bridge held the most weight but weighed the less is the winner. The only materials that you can use in this project is balsa wood and glue. For the bridge that I did it had to span one foot long. First we defined our problem then we established our design, then we prepare to build it, then we built our bridge and we are going to test it soon. If our bridge is unsuccessful than we will have to redesign and try to make it better. Things I like about this project is about the same things that I liked about the other project. I liked competing with the other classmates. I liked how we got to design our own bridge and not follow directions on how to make one. I also liked that we got to work in groups and work with new people that we wouldn’t have thought about working with before. These are the things I liked about this balsa wood bridge design project. I was a very fun bridge design project to