6th grade engineering students from the Columbia Secondary School auction their original cardboard chair designs for social good.

The Stronghold

Team name

The Flaming Fair Chairs

Team photo

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One of our early designs

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Project manager

Lia P.

Computer tech

Fabian S.

Materials handler

Anyelly V.

Additional support member

None

Early design considerations

Our early design was not chosen because it was not as strong and out together as well as our other chair prototype.

Front view of our final prototype

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Final Prototype Back

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Final prototype structure

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Final design considerations

The Cool Chair was our final design because it's physical appearance was nice, and it was very strong, because we chose to roll up cardboard. And cylinders are one of the strongest shapes known.

How we scaled up our prototype

We scaled up our design of 10 as the scale factor. We decided this because 10 is a nice, round number and fit our design We chose 10, also because it fit the amount of space of our chair, and it fit the height of the chair that we wanted. 10 was the perfect number because we did not need to change the scale factor, so our final cardboard chair is similar to our prototype !

Human-sized chair, front view

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Human sized chair, side view

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Teamwork reflections

We learned that you will get no where if you do not work as a team, and we worked together, and because we worked as a team, we finished early!

Improvements

I think our back was not too strong, so I think we should have made a stronger back.

Name of non profit organization

Heifer International

The mission of this non-profit organization

The point of the Heifer International is to give poor people animals that they can survive and finally have an income. It gives people all over the world to be able to reedem themselvs. For example  you can give a flock of chicks to a poor family in Cameroon and then they will have eggs and once a  chicken dies they have meat.

The importance of this non-profit

It is important because if a person is sick or diying then the poor familys cant help and they will die. Thsi will also help them get a good education.

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