Thursday, January 27, 2011

The Tennis Ball Challenge!



In this creative team challenge, you are to figure out a time effective way to pass one tennis ball so that it touches everyone once. Using powers of shiftiness, my group decided what constituted a pass was that the ball touches a person. Our first model had me hold the tennis ball and tap everyone on the hands once in a circle. However, or competitors went further and made a ramp out of their hands. Knowing that the tennis ball would move faster than my arm gave them the advantage in one round. Our group then had the idea to join hands in the middle and merely drop the ball into the interlocking hands. This was by far the fastest model and it smoked the opposing team. However, our personal criteria machine decided that no two people could be touching the ball at once, so a new model was needed. At long last our final model came into being, where we had the ball drop through our cupped hands to facilitate ball dropping speed as quickly as possible. In the end, the other group copied our design, but originality led to success and we won the challenge!

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