Teamwork

I also liked it because it taught our group to work together without getting into petty fights. I leaned that if you want to get something accomplished, you have to cooperate and compromise. You have to do the three C's: cooperate, compromise, and communicate well. In the end, we succeeded in creating a real life chair that you can sit on and rest on without it breaking. In the job of making the chairs, we each had a different job like making it stable, strengthening it, making it pretty, and the last job was measurements. I loved this CHAIR PROJECT! Shriya Anandjee 7-12

There were three categories that everybody had to strive for—stability, the scale and decorations. Each group created a chair following the three categories. Each chair, in the end, could hold one person’s weight. The chair project taught us all about 3-D engineering and it showed us that teamwork was essential to creating all of the chairs. It was also fun to create the chairs, using our imagination.
Jason Han 712

My group's first chair was a disaster. The second one was much better.You could actually sit on it,even me (weighing over 100 pounds). Shiyu Lin 706

We had trouble measuring the triangles to hold the chair up though. It was really funny when we put a real chair under our cardboard chair and everyone thought that it was actually stable. We were all laughing. I really like our chair, I think it has a great design, too. Shanell-712

Now, our group was fine when we were making the chair structure, however when it came to covering the chair with colored-paper, everything went a little crazy. Few of our group members fought about what color to put on the chair, and I admit I was one of them who was whining about the color. Well, so we solved this problem by putting a few colors on the chair so it made everybody happy. Bipasha Roy 706

...in the process of putting the chair together, frustration upon us spread like a persistent fire would upon a forest. Through the arguments, and a lot of decisions, our team prevailed and came through with a fine creation. This experience has taught me that the quote 'action speaks louder than words' applies to multiple things in life, if men were to pick themselves up and began to take actions, prosperity and welfare would be achieved.... Brian Zhou 706

Since bamboo made a good frame, we had used the bamboo to make a basic frame. The bamboo was very strong, able to hold down a lot of weight. Next, we had covered the frame with cardboard, not able to see the frame. This is similar to making a house. Anyways, after we had covered the frame with the cardboard, we made sure it was strong enough to hold down four people. And it was successful. The last step was to decorate the chair, where arguments had broke out in our group. We finally decided on using the colors orange and blue to represent the New York Mets. In the end we were surprised how working together with your friends would make such a good chair! The stars that I had drawn on the chair represents our two goals. One to learn working together, and the other for having fun learning through this experience. Satwinder Singh 706