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Tennis Ball Game post

What was the challenge (list criteria and constraints)?

Recently (well, not really) we did a team based challenge inside of our second period engineering class. The challenge involved passing a tennis ball around as fast as possible, and everybody had to touch it. Simple enough, and the biggest problem that we had was finding a way to get everyone to the touch the ball before the other team finished.

What plan did your team come up with to solve the challenge?

Immediately, the team genius Austin, found a way to maximize ball touching and speed into one. His idea was to line up our hands as an inclined slope, rolling the ball down the slope, causing it to go at a decent speed and touch everyone's hands.

How did the execution of your plan work out?

This idea worked to the utmost perfection; we were able to beat the other team by a ridiculous amount of time. Of course, the second round we lost because the other team had seen our idea and improved it. There was much complaining and accusations going around, and there wasn't much we could do. So, for the final round, we improved our idea: simply drop the ball and brush our hands against it. It seemed like a winning strategy; it was not. The other team simply got everyone to touch the ball at once, and won the last round.

What would you do the same?

What would you do differently?

Honestly, I was happy with the results, and would not try to change anything and would keep all our ideas the same. The only thing that could need changing was the grade of the slop for our ramp (it could have been steeper).