Engineering: Marble Maze Project Evaluation Form
Hein Aung
Period 3
10/3/13
Marble Maze Evaluation Form
My challenge was to make a maze that a ½ inch marble can roll down by gravity as slow as possible. I had a couple of the challenges I have faced in my project. One of the challenges I’ve faced was making the maze wide enough for the marble to roll with gravity. Another challenge I’ve faced was to make the maze thinner because if it is too wide, the velocity increases, but if the maze is a little bit thinner, the velocity decreases. That’s my biggest challenge of this project, to make the marble roll as slow as possible.
The first step I took was to brainstorm my ideas with my partner to figure out how we’re going to built the maze. Then we plan out our ideas and started to eliminate things that are not necessary. Finally, we started to built our project with the ideas we came up with.
I would rate my project a 8.0 because the project did work, but not as we expected. We thought our project was pretty good, but wasn’t better than the others. There were some things that help our project successful. But the most successful thing of all was the ramp at the beginning. I thought that it was the most important because it gave enough velocity to the marble for it to roll all the way to the end.
There was a few things I have learned and things that had helped with my project. One of the things I’ve learned is that the funnel is one of the things that takes up lots of time for our project. I think that without the funnel, our project will likely fail. Also, one of the things that help our project is the track. The track help the marble roll down all the way to the big funnel, but friction. Another thing that help our project are the ramps. The ramps are one of the important things that helped our project because without it there'd be no velocity. The track takes up less paper, but lots of time.
My partner and I did some research up different ways to build a
Period 3
10/3/13
Marble Maze Evaluation Form
My challenge was to make a maze that a ½ inch marble can roll down by gravity as slow as possible. I had a couple of the challenges I have faced in my project. One of the challenges I’ve faced was making the maze wide enough for the marble to roll with gravity. Another challenge I’ve faced was to make the maze thinner because if it is too wide, the velocity increases, but if the maze is a little bit thinner, the velocity decreases. That’s my biggest challenge of this project, to make the marble roll as slow as possible.
The first step I took was to brainstorm my ideas with my partner to figure out how we’re going to built the maze. Then we plan out our ideas and started to eliminate things that are not necessary. Finally, we started to built our project with the ideas we came up with.
I would rate my project a 8.0 because the project did work, but not as we expected. We thought our project was pretty good, but wasn’t better than the others. There were some things that help our project successful. But the most successful thing of all was the ramp at the beginning. I thought that it was the most important because it gave enough velocity to the marble for it to roll all the way to the end.
There was a few things I have learned and things that had helped with my project. One of the things I’ve learned is that the funnel is one of the things that takes up lots of time for our project. I think that without the funnel, our project will likely fail. Also, one of the things that help our project is the track. The track help the marble roll down all the way to the big funnel, but friction. Another thing that help our project are the ramps. The ramps are one of the important things that helped our project because without it there'd be no velocity. The track takes up less paper, but lots of time.
My partner and I did some research up different ways to build a