Team name
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One of our early designs
Project manager
Computer tech
Materials handler
Additional support member
Early design considerations
Our first design was way too flimsy. The arms and the back would never hold the full weight of a person. The second prototype was suposed to be a rocking chair, but since the whole thing was a big curve you wouldn't be able to sit up, or you would flip over.
Front view of our final prototype
Final Prototype Back
Final prototype structure
Final design considerations
Well to tell you the truth what lead to our final prototype was our second one. We wanted to make a rocking chair so we modified the first one so that someone could sit in a straight casual way, but was high enough, and had enough leg leverage to rock back and forth.
How we scaled up our prototype
1)We took one of the main chair pieces and all of the honey combs (the honey combs were all different)
2) We used a scale factor of 15 to get our final chair dimensions for all the straight pieces of a the chair.
3) We cut out a circle made of paper that had a curve our prototype would fit, and scaled it up by 15, and that left us with the scaled up dimentions of our prototype, so that the chair woulds be similar to our prototype.
Similar- When an object is the same shape but not the same size of another shape
Scale factor- The number of times that you are multiplying or dividing the size of an object up or down by to make it bigger or smaller.
Human-sized chair, front view
Human sized chair, side view
Teamwork reflections
During this project me and my group learned alot of things. we learned team work contribution and craftsmen ship tequniques together all through different hardships like not being a good team, not working together not compromising. But I think that all of that trouble helped us in a way because without it we may have never figured out how to functionally work together.
Improvements
There are alot of things that we could improve on our chair but the main thing that needs to be impoved is that we need stronger cardboard. Our cardboard is weak and very very flimsy. If that was improved our chair would be much much better.
Name of non profit organization
The mission of this non-profit organization
Every day there are almost 1,800 new HIV infections (the virus that causes AIDS) in children under 15, mostly from mother-to-child transmission,1,400 children under 15 die of AIDS-related illness and more than 6,000 young people aged 15–24 are newly infected with HIV.
UNICEF for Children Unite Against AIDS is trying to prevent AIDS by education, medicine, and protection. They are also providing food and shelter to poor or HIV positive children and adults in poor countrys.
Non-profit website URL
uniteforchildren.org
The importance of this non-profit
My group chose this organization becuase AIDs, poverty, and starvation are all very pressing issues for children especially in Africa, and this organization addreses all of those important issues. We think that this is a very trust worthy orginization because it's part of UNICEF and UNICEF has a reputation for being very good and has been doing good things to help kids for a long time.