Hey everyone! It’s been a little while since my last pose about destination Imagination where I went over what happened leading up and during the first Destination Imagination tournament of the year, and if you missed that go check it out here:

Yay, I didn’t D.I!

But after this there was still another tournament! I knew form the start of this that I would not be able to attend this tournament as I would be on a trip with the school band (which did go well and was really fun), but I still helped make some changes to our solution. I’d say may main creation was designing and fabricating a system to make our transporter machine easier to use for our other members of our group that will less familiar with its workings. Here is what it looked like:

https://collaborate.shapr3d.com/v/pOubR_miGVWu3I9bOGk_e

I know it looks a little weird but it connected to our existing machine though the spots for lego axles to connect, and acted as a weight and a way to easily load the other weights onto the machine.

It terms of a more general reflection about the entire project, I feel I definitely learned some things from this experience. I learned how much a having a dedicated group matters to me, as I felt much more under control this year with a great group compared to last year where I had some challenges and a slightly more difficult group for me to work with. An extra year of experience and time to mature was also a key factor in feeling more comfortable. This was a great chance to expand and develop my own skills as well as work on my teamwork and collaboration abilities. My team was instrumental to success of course, so thanks to them for being collaborative, and open-minded throughout everything. As always I learned what I can do better in the future, in this case that was to stop overthinking things before actually trying a solution and start working on planning work in advance and using a healthy work ethic.

Overall D.I. this year went really well and I was happy with my performance. Huge thanks to my team as well for managing to get second place even though they were were missing two team members.