Tennis Ball Tower Challenge
Today for our Whetu Challenge we worked in a group to build a tower out of newspaper, 2 straws and sellotape. We needed to make our tower strong enough to hold a tennis ball and be able to stand alone (not leaning on anything or needing support).
Today I worked with Melissa and Xanthe because they are (sometimes good to work with) and I like working with them.
At first we had trouble with Making it stand by itself because it is very well, thin.
The easiest thing was making the main part/ the thin bit because when I had heard that we were doing this I had a plan in mind how we were going to make the main part.
The best part of our tower was the bottom because it was very strong because of it being to heavy by adding lots of newspaper.
Our tower looked like a Toilet Plunger or one of those Dynamite activators because of the Two bits at the top and the bit at the bottom.
In the end it became a huge mess it could not stand or hold a ball. I think we could have done better by rolling up more newspaper and putting it by the sides and have a nice bit at the top for the tennis ball.
Things don't always turn out as planned - but I hope you had lots of fun.
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