Team+Work

Team Work __**The Straw Challenge:**__
 * In the Straw Challenge each team of four had to create a tower out of nothing but straws.** **The group with the tallest straw structure won the challenge. We had 18 minutes to build our freestanding, straw structures**
 * My Group: Mattwew, Andrew Caskie**
 * 1. How was your individual Performance?:**
 * We achived our goal because we made the tallest free standing structure out of our class using the least straws. Our tower streched from the top of one of the technology room tables all the way to the ceiling ___ inches away. We followed a**


 * 2. How was the groups performance?:**
 * My individual performance was exeptional, I spent a minute at the beginning explaning my design to the other members of my group then I asigned each member a position and a piece of the tower to construct. After a few minutes I switched andrew and mattwew because andrew was struggling to do his part and mattwew was getting bored.**


 * 3. What was the Most challenging Part?:**
 * Actually getting the structure to stand up was tedious work. At first we had to find a way to tie everything together. We ended up knotting all of the straws together. Ufortunatelly this resulted in some lenghts being shorter than others**
 * 4. What does working in teams mean?:**
 * To work in a team is to devide a job into several parts and give them away to different people and then combining them to result in the completed final product**
 * 5. Why is teamwork important?:**
 * A team can comlete jobs much faster than a single person, making them more effective sollutions to long problems.**
 * 6. What are the attitududes and behaviours I need to maintain in order to be successful when working in a team?**
 * I must be caring, principled, organised, enthusiastic and willing to participate.**

Reflection: What did I learn today. Today we built a miniature structures out of lego. We were broken up into 5 groups of 2 or 3 an then given 30 minutes to build our structures. My group built a porto-potty on weels so that we could demonstrate the willingness to change things for the practicality of others in the future.