Our class was assigned a Rube Goldberg Project. We had a choice to work in teams (four people max.), or work alone. Personally, I prefer to work with people. I thought I should keep my group to two or three people, because a team is smarter than one person, but groups four would be too many different schedules, and too many people with different opinions. So, I turned to Ally and Barbara to be with.

However, while we were discussing who’s house to build the machine at, Hana came over and asked to join us. She also wanted to work with somebody, and it would be mean to just say no. So we discussed it, and it took a lot more thought than you would expect. We were thinking if we should all work as a group of four, or if we should break up into two teams of two. If we were in one group of four, things might be slower to do, but if we split up into two teams of two, we might of wanted to be with another person who wasn’t in our group. Finally, we decided to work in a group of four. The thing that made us make our decision was that Hana was the only one who had space to build a Rube Goldberg Machine, so if we worked in groups of two, the group without Hana wouldn’t have any space to build anything.

After finally sorting out our teams, we started to plan.