How tall is your tower now? Are there pieces of your tower that are not making it taller or stronger? Are there joints in your tower that need more support? What is the area of the bottom of your tower?
Use this space to record all the data you collected about your Tall Tower.
Upload a picture showing how you are testing your Tall Tower. Be sure your picture shows changes you made in your boat design.
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We may share your boat picture with other people if we think that they can learn from your process or your design. Your boat may be famous!!
Like many other engineers, you are working hard to improve these designs. Making changes to a plan is how we create the best designs. Please upload a picture of your NEW Tall Tower plan here.
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(You can receive up to two more 20-point badges for your Tall Tower plans. You must go through the process 3 times to receive all 3 badges.)
After you complete this step move on to Testing Your Ship!
Engineers use data to improve designs while they test. Upload a picture of the data you just collected from your first test.
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Now you have great data! Some data you found may not be numeric. It may be what part of your tower worked. What part of your tower leaned. How long it was able to stay up with no help. Or, maybe you had to put your hand on your tower so it would not fall down. That data would tell you where to add strength!
All of this data is important!
Use all the data you have to improve your boat’s plan. You can click here to upload a new plan for your Tall Tower.
Describe the steps that you will use to test whether your tower can stand for one minute. You do not need to test the whole design at once. You may want to test one part or one structure within your overall design. Or, you could build your tower. See what works and does not work. Take it down, make a new plan, and build another Taller Tower.
Describe how you are testing and collecting data below.
You will be able to earn 15 points for each test of your Tall Tower designs. This badge can be earned 3 times for 3 different tests.
Engineers draw plans to help them think. You are going to have to think hard to find ways to build your Tall Tower.
Build a Tall Tower that will stand for 1 minute using only the materials provided.
Gravity is always pulling down. It will always look for weakness in your tower and try to make it lean or twist or collapse. You will need to use data as you build to find ways to use the strength of your tower’s base to make your tower tall.
Upload your first Tall Tower design here.
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(You can receive up to three 20-point badges for your Tall Tower plans. You must go through the process 3 times to receive all 3 badges.)
After you complete this step move on to Testing Your Tower!
