After working for a few months, designing, working on lines and rehearsing, and going to the regionals tournament, We only got 2nd place.

So, it’s that time of year again, DI! DI is a competition on how creative, smart and collaborative  and the crazy thing is it happens on a global scale, there are international championships on how creatives, smart and collabaritive you can be. I chose engineering because it’s where my skills shine and it’s mostly about the machine not the story, which I like. So I got into a group with Sam, Kai, Parker, Monica, and Sidney, ( I got their blog posts by their name)

The process

We started in mid January and we did some team building such as getting to know each other and learn more about ourselves, we also had to do a for where we showed each others interest and we integrated those into our team choice elements and other elements of our DI presentation, everyone assigned our own roles in the group, I was the main designer of the machine because I had 3D modelling skills and I had a 3d printer, which made a huge advantage in design and performance because all the other teams were using electric lego which does not have as much performance potential as 3d printing. I think by taking this role, I have learned many things about 3d modling and engineering, such as calculating gear ratios, getting the right distance between gears and getting better at soldering. When I finished it, it preformed so well it can carry more weight than was permitted in the DI, so I had the most solid machine probably out of anyone in engineering. Everyone on our team did well in their roles and we were ready for the tournament

The tournament

It was the tournament day, we were getting ready and doing some dancing, refining, and going over lines, we were finally ready to go up and preform, we were ready to preform and everything was going according to plan, the machine preformed flawlessly and got to the top super quickly, the machine was not going to its full potential because it did not have enough weight to reach its potential, everything went well and the instant challenge did not go so well. We got second in the lower mainland tournament, but we still have lots to improve on, such a sad the placement of the weighs for risk taking, working on our story and our lines. So in conclusion, we did good by placing in second but we still have a lot to improve on for the next tournament.

Reflections

So for the tournament, I think we did well by getting in second place, which is still good, but after getting the tournament points, we realized we had a lot to work on, such as making our story more creative, improving our team choice elements, and working on the machines innovation and risk taking of the weight placement. But overall, we did good but still have lots to improve on and we probably can improve everything by the next tournament.

Overall reflection

I think for DI this year, I have learned a lot, such as in my engineering skills, teamwork skills, and there are many things that I could work on in grade 10 Di. Firstly, I think my team could have distributed the workload and worked harder to make a better product, Secondly, I think that leadership could have made our team work harder, smarter and contribute more in making a good product. Lastly, I could have done better at easing my workload because the machine took a lot of my time as well. So in conclusion, this is what could have been done better in my team and I hope to improve next year