Engineering Curriculum at Coronado High School: 2010 - 2014

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Foam Board Product Design Challenge!



Acme Foam Board Inc. has hired your consultant team to help them improve efficiency at their foam board factory. They would like to reduce product waste by developing a product they can manufacture using waste foam board from their manufacturing process.


Criteria:
  • Identify a customer and develop a foam board product prototype that solves a problem/meets a need. Document your process.


Constraints:

  • Work in teams
  • Two pieces of foam board will be supplied for this project
    • The final prototype may only use one board
  • Additional prototyping/construction materials
    • Printer paper
    • Foam board
    • Tape
    • Glue
    • String
  • Employ at least three of the “d.Think” methods from the Stanford d.School bootcamp bootleg in developing or assessing your design.
    • Link to document TBA. Use google in the mean time.
  • Document your work and prepare a presentation that communicates your experience.
    • Minimum - Narrative: What occurred in your process? What was noteworthy?
    • Bonus - Story: Was there anything unexpected in your experience? The unexpected is memorable.

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