Tower of Power

The spring Technical Writing class completed the performance part of the "Tower of Power" lab report.

The requirements were deceptively simple. 1 sheet of computer paper. Glue stick. Make a tower at least 8cm tall and hold as much mass as possible.

The record is 101lbs! As a class the spring group did a great job. All but one group had at least one tower hold 50lbs or more. Tyler and Megan had the high scoring tower with 75lbs. Way to go!

Now it's on to writing up the lab report. How did you build the towers(some built as many as a dozen to perfect their design)? How did the tower fail? Why did you change your design? What implications for the future does this have?

Soon we'll start work on the Professional Presentation project.