Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Team building activity

The activity was fun, it brought the people in the groups together against the other group. It seemed that each group would just copy the other and try and improve on the design because they already saw the end result, giving them another "practice" before the contest. I enjoyed the activity alot because it basically was trying to find a way to exploit a loophole in the directions. For example, if everyone had to touch the ball (with the intent of having to pass the ball) my group just put everyones hands together and touched them all with the ball at the same time. Also, when the rules were changed to make the ball be in the air between touching hands, both groups came up with a similar design of letting the ball fall through touching each persons hands as they go. We talked about it in AP Physics and Mr. Lemei was very excited about the team building activity. I think that if we were to do this every week, it would not only increase team building, but problem solving and loop-hole-finding abilities in all members of the class.

1 comment:

  1. Good specifics about how the groups would feed off each other. Great point too about looking for ways to exploit the rules. Glad to know that Mr. Lemei enjoyed the activity. Thanks.

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