Egg drop activity

Since Professor gave us the instruction and requirement, we already had our goals and objective. The second step in the planning process was also partly provided by professor. We knew we had 10 straws and a yard long tape to use. Since we just jump in to think about what we can do to protect the egg, we skip the step to identify group strengths and weaknesses. However, one of our group member told us that she previously had a same activity in her other class. Although she told us that her group didn't make it, we thought the previous experience definitely would give us some advice. So what we did in the next couple mins was try to come up with some alternative strategies, which was step in the planning process. Basically we did which the definition requires. we had come up with some different approaches to solve the problem, and evaluated every alternatives to assess strengths and weakness of each. As we near the time limit, we finally decided to use one of the strategies which we thought should work out for us. Given that there is really one person can access to the materials and egg, other group members were also trying to do something to help her. One of us was watching the clock and told us the time every 2 mins. Others were helping her apply the straws to the egg. in the last five mins, a member had a better than existing plan to do this task, but due to the lack of time, we didn't do his way. and the result is our strategy did not work out the way we thought it should done.although we failed to accomplish the task, i still found the experience to be excellent. we not only did a farily good plan, but also did a great team work.i think if we have more time to try another plan, maybe we can do a better job.