Team DW
Team DW \ ball drop for Team DW This is the Team DW Ball Drop page.
Team Members
Initial Brainstorming Process- What Worked and What Didn't
We brainstormed a variety of ideas before settling on our chosen slingshot method of propulsion. Some other possible ideas we conceived were constructing an airplane/glider structure, employing the noodle as a catapult, building a canon-type structure, and designing a parachute. We decided that a glider constructed out of the paper and sticks (as wings) would be illogical, as gliders require a precise measurements/symmetry that our materials would not allow. We believed that the noodle based catapult and noodle based cannon (pushing the ball with a stick through the hole of the noodle) would provide less propulsion than the slingshot, so we decided to dismiss those ideas. Furthermore, we realized that while a parachute would increase the air time of the ball, it would do nothing, neglecting air/wind, to increase the horizontal distance of the ball. Thus we chose the slingshot as our preferred method of launching our projectile.