Paper tables in Gateway Learning Base

This afternoon in Gateway Learning Base we continued with our engineering focus. Last week we were set the challenge to make a table from a piece of card and a newspaper, strong enough to hold a dictionary 20cm above the floor.

It was a tricky task! This week we had the chance to reflect on our initial designs and to make improvements. Our first task was to redesign our original tables.

We then set to work making improvements and developing our models.

Finally it was testing time. We had to vote, did we think the tables were going to stand? Then it was time to test.

 

 

There were some success's...

 

And some designs that weren't quite as successful...

But we discussed what we should do to make them better and gave some excellent tips on improvement.