Tower Champions

Yea we won the tower building contest. Was a I surprised we won? No. Was I surprised that my group gelled as well as they did? Yes. My group really did an amazing job today. I cant even take credit for how well they worked together.

I can take credit for the tower idea though. Late last night I came up with the idea of making a water tower. I decided that everyone else would probably make a useless tower, so I would one up them and make a water tower. My inspiration for this was my hometown water tower.

This morning in class, I asked a former student of this class what the towers were judged on, and he said that height was one of the requirements. Knowing that our tower wouldn't be that tall, I went to work trying to think of a way to make it taller. To be honest I didn't come up with anything, and instead sent out an email to my group telling them to bring extra supplies to help in this regard. Man did they come through.

I'm not entirely sure who brought the duct tape and cups, but they no doubt won us the contest. In the end, we didn't have the prettiest tower, but it was the tallest and the most unique. Our group really did a great job coming through in the clutch.

The best thing that our group did, was divide into three groups. One was a creative group, one was the water tower group, and the other was the height group. Each group did a great job. I kind of assigned a leader to each group, and then just overlooked the height and tower groups. In the end we won, so obviously what we did worked.

Again I cannot stress how awesome our group did today. They really came through.