Decision Making

First of all, I want to say a big Thank you to Prof. Kurpis because not every professor put these type of alternatives or choices to their students. Specially about exams! He is very kind and generous about putting this exercise in front of us to improve our grades. In contrast, he was not generous about the grading, his grading policy is hard. But any way Thankyou professor Kurpis.

Taking a decision in this size of group was never easy for us. It was a chaos untill one guy come from back and take the charge of whole class to bring the ideas together. He stand up and starting putting ideas together on blackboard with which most people agreed. Some people in the group were totally wanted to be others to preceive about their ideas. They just wanted to do what they like and trying to force those ideas to bring up their grades. I guess, they just wanted to compete for win. At, the time of chaos, some people who was trying to suggest something from back of class and no-one was listening to them; just left the class. They just withdrawal from the group and left the class like they are not the one who is going to be benefit from it. Or maybe they were just thinking, whatever decision class is going to take they will accept it.
I guess compromise and collaboration went hand-in-hand. We all ran out of time because of their was no clear cut way of making this decision. In last 15-20 minutes, we all just wanted to get this done so everyone were just collaborating with others and trying to explain why this point is more stronger than other.
I personally chose collaborating in the whole exercise because whatever I was saying I had to explain to others why this thing is more improtant than other and why we should so this. well, I don't think it would have been any better in this situation because there were no step-by-step instrucations to follow for us. Also, the class is so big in 50 mins we could not comeup with better ideas. There was no leader in the begining of the class. If we would have leader and instructions to follow , then I would say it might have been better but there is no gurantee because of large group.

An Eggs-cellent Way to Plan !!

The activity which we performed in class as a group, our objective in that was to protect an egg in any which way so that if we drop it from ten feet above, it should not break. Also, the condition was that the egg must not be covered more than fifty percent. we all have limited stuff to protect it for example; an egg, around two feet of masking tape, eight straws and a scissor which must go around in all the groups in order to do whatever they want from this particular material from breaking it.

So, we all as a groups started our first step : we all discussed what we have to do with this limited material. we did make some models and trying to figure out how can we protect it in best way. Finally, we finalize one plan. (It's different story that we make some changes in the end). In Second Step : In second step we analyze our resources and take a look at them after asking prof. Kurpis so we best utilize them in proper way. Then, as far as I am concerned, I don't think we have done the Third Step because in our first step we finalize our model after making different kind of models. Now, comes the best part the Final Step. As soon as we get all the material in our hand. we give our model a fantastic shape. Instead, of cutting the straws, what we did is interconnected them with each other so that we don't loose more tape. And that tape we can use to protect egg and make our model more strong.

I think we did it in the best way. It was fantastic. we finished it before time and our UNBREAKABLE was the best model. It was very nice group to work with.
we drop it from ten feet above and it did not break. We got five bonus points. Yeah!!!!