An Egg-citing Assignment :)

This was a fun assignment and a good learning experience! As a group we were very determined to succeed, although we could improve in some of the areas.

In our group, we didn't select a leader. This is something that we probably should have done, because once we started it was a little bit chaotic. Most of us had strong ideas and wanted to help and lead, but with the little time and a big group, it was quite hard. Sometimes the group went off track and started trying other ideas suddenly, sometimes last minute ideas, but when realizing the time was shrinking we held on to our plan and looked for ways to keep the straws in place.

While working on our assignment, we were aware of our goals and objectives. Together we made sure we were on time and had everything we needed, such as our names in a list, a drawing of the egg, that the egg was at least 50% visible, and of course being finished on time. As time went on and we were getting closer to the deadline, we increased speed and were able to finish on time. However, there were some last minute ideas in the group, and the fragile egg ended up breaking even before we had the chance to try our device. That's too bad! It would have been fun to see if our contraption device would have saved our egg from breaking in the fall.

We did not assign specific roles from the beginning, but instead it seemed like most people wanted to lead and manage the assignment. However, some roles were assigned along the way. We had many strong individuals with a will to succeed in our group, which can be good too, but in some ways we collided at times. At some points, we all listened to each person with an idea. We discussed various ideas and some ideas were similar in some ways, so we tried to consolidate those when possible. Along the way we talked about possible problems with the proposed designs, so we decided that if the predicted problems would occur while building the egg, we'd try a different approach and had various ideas for this.

Even though a big part of the team wanted to lead and get ideas across, we were able to work together and listen to eachother as well, and tried to put our plans into action. Whenever a thought out idea didn't quite work how we thought it might, we automatically tried other ideas. It was quite hard to attach the straws the way we were thinking, and it was slippery at times, but we were able to finally tape the straws onto the egg. We felt that our egg contraption device had a nice design, and seemed like it would make the fall safely.

Furthermore, even though the group activity became a little bit chaotic at times, we accomplished our goals of making the contraption device very similar to what we planned. It was an agreed design and very hopeful to save the egg. We didn't assign specific roles at first, but along the way, we made roles such as drawing a picture of the egg with the contraption. The roles kind of naturally evolved in some ways. For some reason, the egg name was not discussed in the group, but someone took the initiative and came up with a name for our egg anyway.

For more effectiveness, maybe we should have assigned more clear roles. Also, since we had many strong and driven people in our group, maybe we could have assigned the tasks so that each person, who wanted to, could get some hands-on contribution to the device. Overall, we created a seemingly good contraption, that we unfortunately weren't even able to test, since the egg broke!