Figure 1 - Team Dressed Up With Final Kite
Monday, June 12, 2017
Final Update
And the finish line has been crossed and the results are in. While we did not cross in first we did do pretty good and in the front of the pack. We did everything that we needed to do. Our final report, posted in last weeks post, received a 92 which we were really happy with. During the presentation lots of things could have gone wrong. None of them did. We all showed up in out best suits ready to present and new what we had to do. Because of our almost perfect execution we managed to get an 94 on our final presentation and tangible deliverables. Overall, I think these two grades are the result of a very good term. A picture of all four of us with the kite on the day of the presentation is below in Figure 1.
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Week 9 Update
Busy, busy ants are constantly at work in the grass outside collecting food for all the big scary crickets...well that is what the movie "Bug's Life" produced by Pixar taught us anyways. Our group of four has been scurrying like these ants for the past week getting ready for our big day which is tomorrow!!!
Over the past week we have not done much with the kite. The kite has pretty much been left alone except for today. It was decided this week that Neil would be flying the kite during the final presentation so he practiced flying it today. Also today we checked the kite for points of weakness and replaced a couple pieces of tape so the kite does not fall apart during the presentation.
For the final presentation and report of the kite we did a lot of cost analysis. We were able to determine that if the kite was produced one time the kite would cost $13.62 and if we were to mass produce the kite it would cost $6.66 to make. We also measured the glide of the kite from a take off point of six feet five times. After taking the average distance glided we determined that the kite, on average, travels sixteen feet forward for every six feet the kite drops vertically. All of this information is included in the final design brief here.
Tomorrow we present the kite at 8:50 am in the innovation studio so wish us luck. Expect a photo of us all dressed to the dime posted on a blog along with how we think we did!! A pdf of our presentation is able to be viewed here.
Over the past week we have not done much with the kite. The kite has pretty much been left alone except for today. It was decided this week that Neil would be flying the kite during the final presentation so he practiced flying it today. Also today we checked the kite for points of weakness and replaced a couple pieces of tape so the kite does not fall apart during the presentation.
For the final presentation and report of the kite we did a lot of cost analysis. We were able to determine that if the kite was produced one time the kite would cost $13.62 and if we were to mass produce the kite it would cost $6.66 to make. We also measured the glide of the kite from a take off point of six feet five times. After taking the average distance glided we determined that the kite, on average, travels sixteen feet forward for every six feet the kite drops vertically. All of this information is included in the final design brief here.
Tomorrow we present the kite at 8:50 am in the innovation studio so wish us luck. Expect a photo of us all dressed to the dime posted on a blog along with how we think we did!! A pdf of our presentation is able to be viewed here.
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