SPEECH 111

Thursday, March 09, 2006

Well I haven't "officially" had any small group assignments so far this semester but I often find myself turning assignments into just that. My sister and my best friend are sort of my "creative team"...well they aren't MY creative team...we are a creative team because I try to help them too. The best example of this is from the beginning of this semester. I had an assignment to create a chair out of one single sheet of paper. It had to be at least 3 inches tall, have at least one leg, a back support and it had to support a raw egg...and of course it had to have aesthetic quality. Well 3-D design isn't exactly my forte so I took it to the Team. We all sat down for about 4 hours creating individual solutions. We were all creating effective prototypes but still not any to the level they needed to be. After hours and hours we stopped, picked out the 3 strongest chairs. We narrowed down the qualities of each chair that were strong and what exactly was holding back the quality. We were then able to combine the best features of these three chairs into one Super Chair. I could probably not have accomplished this alone because my solutions were all different...but yet very much the same and some of the solutions the Team came up with...I never would have. If I can I will post a picture of our "super chair" later...it's pretty neat!

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