The activity set for us to draw structures that could up three separate balls was quite confusing. Because it was a vague design brief we had to do what and as much as we can in quite a lot of time we were given. We then found out we had to make these designs in to a physical thing using spaghetti sticks and hot glue guns. At first, I thought I could keep using a bundle of blue tac and hope for the best but if anything it made it worse and unable to keep the sticks rigid and in place. So, I then resorted to using the glue guns which were not only fun to use but kept my structure in place excellently!
It was only till when we were presenting our work that apparently the balls weren't meant to lean against each other and had to be held up separately which was a bit annoying seeing as that's exactly what mine did. Even so, I felt that the collection of diagonal lines keeping the balls up were successful similarly to a camping stool structure.
Our last task was to create a a paper shelter in which our stick structures could be kept safely under from an object being dropped on it. Although, like mine, most of everyone's shelters covered their stick structures, only one actually survived the heavy weight of a basketball.
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