Kevon

Last weekend I participated in a CANstruction event. We had to go through the following process as a team:
 * 1) As a team we have to decide on the design. After we agreed on a design, we had to determine the total number of cans.
 * 2) After the total number of cans was determined, we had to break it down to the number of cans per color.
 * 3) We them had to sketch the design and determine the scale ratio, support structures and needed items.

We had to do all of this following the CANstruction rules: @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canstruction

Not only did I have a blast, but I learned a lot. We used basic math and geometry skills to measure out blueprints and used ratios once we built our product. I know I won't grow up to build sculptures out of cans, but the architect that worked with us talked to us about her job and how she uses math in her daily work. I also really liked that all the cans were donated to the Manna Food bank after the event.

Here is a video I found on YouTube about our event: media type="youtube" key="VVvCsAK_GxI" height="349" width="560"

Here are some photos of our project, which was taken from Andy Warhol's painting: Our Plans

Creating the soup can:

It fell. This was NOT the fun part.