STEM Challenge

On fun Friday, Neto gave us a STEM project to give us some hands on experience, this STEM challenge was to create a water slide for a little toy person to slide down. The slide had to be waterproof and not kill the toy if it were a real person. The longest and tallest water slide that was the safest would win the STEM challenge and that group would win the most points. The design that our team came up with involved using cups as a tunnel for the toy to go through and then at the end there was a plank of wood for the toy to safely fall slide down at the end. When Neto started pouring the water into our slide and the toy was put in, it got a little stuck in the plastic cups but with a little nudge it finally fell through and safely fell to the bottom. 

My team didn't win first place because there were other teams that did a better job at getting the toy through their slide safely that were longer and taller than ours. If we were to do this again, I would have our group widen the holes in the plastic cups so that the toy could fall through more easily and not get stuck, I would also like to try getting a lot more plastic cups and make our slide longer and taller so that we could have a better chance of winning the challenge. 

At the end of the day, everyone's competitive spirit helped create these amazing slides that were very entertaining to watch a toy go down, especially when it didn't work out very well. Nobody's slide was perfect but everyone tried their best and put in a lot of effort.