General Overview:
We shall take a moment of silence, to remember all the unnecessary harmful plastic straws that was bought by our teacher that have made their way into the ocean and polluted our great waters. Rest in peace sea-life. Even though this is a "computer science class" our teacher had us make the longest straw bridge possible out of...plastic straws. The fact this even got approved is questionable, this has in my opinion little to do with actual coding. I guess this activity was planned to encourage teamwork and communication? Can't think of anything else.
Anyways, we had to build a plastic straw bridge, I felt like I was working in a factory because I was doing complete tedious work, literally taking plastic straws, removing the wrapper and connecting straws together by pinching one end and pushing it into another. In a nutshell that was all this project really was about.
Q1. What did you make?
A1. Plastic straw bridge, we must have used around 260 straws or something. Our bridge was six straws thick and...a lot of straws long.
Q2. What is one problem you ran into? How did you solve the problem?
A2. We had a lot of straws to go through, and it was quite tedious unwrapping every plastic straw in sight. Two colleagues found their own ways on mass-removing straw wrappers. One of them gathered around 12, hold the middle and push the bottom out so that the straws penerate the top piece of the wrapper. It wasn't a smooth one but it worked and saved us time.
The other one was to gather around as you much as you can hold in one hand, grab a scissor or something sharp and start "shaving" the wrappers off. It was the best method I ever witnessed to mass-removing plastic straw wrappers.
Q3. What is one problem you ran into? How did you solve the problem?
A3. Can't...really think of one worth mentioning. Biggest problem I guess is how the teacher just contributed more to pollution with all the plastic straws he bought. I can't imagine how many plastic straws were wasted over the years...I'm pretty sure it's been eight and jeez... Eight years, of buying plastic straws for full three classes for full eight years that are divided into eight groups all using enough straws to rebuild the floor... think about the god damn turtles.