Hi welcome back to my blog. In scimatics we recently finished a project called The ultimate design challenge where we designed an object with the goal or maximizing either volume or surface area. I decided to design an oven with maximum surface area so there would be lots of space to place pans and baking sheets. I created my oven on tinker cad and here’s how it turned out. I rectangular prisms for almost all of the shapes except for the burners on the top which were cylinders.

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I then had to measure and calculate all of the shapes to find the surface area and volume and these were my calculations and measurements.

My ratio was 1.30:1 and I did achieve my goal of maximizing surface area.

Overall in this project i learned how to calculate surface area and how to manipulate shapes sizes to get a larger surface area than volume (just make them thin)

Have a good morning/afternoon/evening!