aluminum boats

This morning, Mr Wood gave us a task (whoa). In a group of three, we had to design and construct a 'boat' that will hold the most glass beads out of everyone. 

Jessie, Wyatt and I got into a group and started coming up with designs. In the end, we decided to use jessies design of a canoe looking boat. Of course, the end product looked NOTHING like what we had planned. Instead it looked like a stand-up taco shell! 

Everyone got to vote for the boat they thought would work best, then we put them into the water and add beads in. The most successful boat (ss brainboat) only had 1 vote but held 70 beads. Our group was second (hms taco) with 47 beads.

names, votes and scores

Everyone was then sent off to redesign, using either ss brainboat or hms taco as they're example (trying to make the designs work better i guess). 

Our first boats bottom was flat, like... an open cup?? so we changed that so the bottom was bowl like. 

The second go we only got 40, but that could've been because the beads were wet. 

It was lots of fun, and the first boats were the funniest.