Decision Making

During the decision making, I used avoidance and collaborating ways to handle the chaos. In the beginning I was going to voice out my ideas but it seemed like other people were voicing out my ideas for me. I thought that it would be best to just listen and save my energy from screaming and arguing with the other classmates. I decided to sit back and just listen. I did talk to the classmates who were sitting around me and shared my thoughts. However, as the time went on, I was getting frustrated because I felt like there were too many people arguing with each other and we were not going anywhere with all the ideas that we had. Then all of sudden, this one guy decided to leave the class. Professor had to stop him from leaving and ask him to stay. This has somehow stopped all the arguments for a second. However, people started to argue again. Then this guy name Teddy stepped up and started to put all the ideas together. At that point, I was collaborating with everyone and trying to pick a best option for me and other people. We all agreed on one option and made a decision. I was happy that we finally got to make a decision and Professor agreed on it. I think that the decision that we made was a best decision that we could have made from the time that we had and the environment that we were in. I was just amazed that 80 of us made an one decision together.

An Eggs-cellent Way to Plan

Since the professor defined our goal, our group started with step 2 and bypassed step 1. At step2, we started to gather resources and information to come up with a plan. We had a person who knew what we had to do to accomplish our goal. We decided to follow his plan.
However, at step 3, instead of just following his plan, we came up with different idea. We imagined each ideas that we thought of and picked the one that we all agreed on. We thought that our new plan was going to keep our egg safe. We started to sketch our model. Actually, this took the longest and we had a hard time picking the model. However, we did come up with a model that we all agreed on to use.
It was time for us to build an actual model. We were at step 4. The girl who drew the model built the actual model, since she knew exactly how it was supposed to look like. Rest of us were trying to help her out by holding the straws and tapes.
Finally, it was time for us to drop the egg. We were at step 5. Unfortunately, our egg didn't make it but we were very close at saving our egg. Overall, it wasn't bad as other ones but we did not accomplish our goal. I thought that we putted lot of time on skeching the model and relied on one person too much. We didn't put the most effort as a group to accomplish our goal. .
Also, when we were building the actual model, we did not divided the work evenly and allow other members in the group to contribute.