LEGO Challenge

This week we embarked on the Lego Challenge. Curan and I were the architect while Tsion, Aparna, and Eugene were the engineers.

Before going into the challenge, hearing the roles, we predicted it was something very similar to what actually took place. As Curan was the communicator of the model piece while I was in charge of writing down the details. It was important that we were both on the same page. Having worked with Curan several times before, I understood the way he communicated very well. At first we were very detailed about our approach, making sure that we described each layer precisely by the number of units each color is and where it should be placed.

At a certain point we realized how difficult it still was for someone completely fresh to understand what we were trying to say and then recreate it. That was when we began to get discouraged and felt that we should just try to recreate the plane by describing how it should look like rather than doing specific instructions for the rest. This approach of the bigger picture rather than the small detail, we thought, would create room for the engineers to get creative but the outcome would be very similar to the actual model.

When we found out that the engineers didn't receive the correct parts, our friends in the other groups asked us if we could switch parts so that both of us could create something. This was frustrating and our team decided to just build anything that would resemble a helicopter with our resources.

Reflecting upon what this means for the outlook of our team, it appears that we are able to adjust and are the going with the flow type. I think we are also very easy going with the means to the end as long as the bigger picture is achieved.