Eggs-cellent brainstorming

• Even though I absolutely loved the class activity on the egg planning, it ended up being a lot difficult than I thought. I believe my group had very good ideas about how to protect the egg; however, we definitely needed more time, materials and division of work.
• From all the steps in the planning process, my team failed to complete the last two. We knew what our objectives were and we even made sure we understood the rules by asking the professor about some details, like how much of the egg needed to be visible. Also, we studied the materials that we were going to use and we even asked inside the group if someone was good at working with such delicate materials. We definitely developed many strategies since we had at least five ideas at the beginning of the planning and we cut it off to two at the end. We even thought about a back-up plan that we would have done if the first one was too complicated.
• But then we realized that we didn’t cover some things. Our original plan didn’t include a specific division of the work and even though it was going good at the beginning, everybody ended up trying to work with the materials at the same time, making the work chaotic. We lost time trying to divide the work and we never got to the last step of planning. We never got the chance to revise our job or to double check if it was secure enough. We barely made it to the time limit and we even forgot to write the plan to handle it to the professor.
• I would say that we did not do terribly bad but we just missed some points of the planning process that made us lose time. We never made a division of the work; therefore we didn’t know who was exactly in charge of what. By the time we figured that out, we had lost valuable minutes and we didn’t even remember about the writing plan we had to handle in. However, I think our brainstorming process was decent and we could have done a better job in different conditions.