Decision Making

Using our exam grade to bring about this decision making experiment was an excellent idea. When everyone's concerned about their grades they tend to put more effort into ideas and ways to make their score higher. From the slide of "How people handle conflict" my position followed an order of compete to win, avoidance, compromise, then collaborating. At the beginning when we were told we can decide the changes we want for our grade and the test format I was prepared and ready thinking of ideas and solutions. But then the class went went crazy, people started to shout and scream their own ideas. At that point I was in the avoidance stage because the ones that were shouting helped me expressed my position of what I wanted. Dropping the lowest grade and change the format into MC majority questions so I just sat back. Then as the problem went on, the disagreements continued and the time was running out, we still haven't agreed on anything yet. That was when the compromising and collaborating stage came in. I decided to take a look at other options out there on the broad and agreed on something of what I wanted what some other people wanted with short answers and true or false questions. I made changed my standing slightly so we can come to a conclusion sooner. At that point the collaborating also occurred where we had to bargain with the ones that were standing strong on their wants and negotiate a compromise. I changed my standing position because of the time we have left and we still haven't come up with an agreement. Overall, the process was hard and pressured when we have till the end of the class to come up with a decision where everyone agree on. When I think over the situation now, I think my position would be focused on compromising and collaborating because with a huge group of people it's impossible to come up with a solution if you don't give up something for the good of the whole. Compromising is the best solution to all problems. As long as the other side doesn't get all of what they want you won't feel cheated or unfair.

Planning egg-drop process

STEP 1: Determining the goal: When we were told to come up with a plan
to design a nest or whatever to prevent the egg from cracking when drop
from a high distant with just straws and tapes under 20 something minute
planning and 10 minute to create.Half the egg must be visible and with
lots of pressure involved.This was a very hard task.

STEP 2: Knowing our only resources are straws and tapes,my group and I
first asked each other, see if anyone has any great ideas or not.

STEP3: develop the strategies:We all contributed what we had in mind
with building a half nest to protect the egg.And then two other member
of the group came up with something to support the egg from hitting
the ground by producing something like legs with the straws.We combined
those two ideas and created our rocket egg. None of us were great artists
so we scrambled something that was close to the structure and we wasted
the whole front and back of the piece of paper.

STEP 4: Before we got the resources to perform the task, we also talked
about who 's the shortest and has a great sense of balance to go and
drop the egg.Then when we got the straws and tapes and started to  build
the model we all went crazy and kept rushing because there was
no time. We wrapped half the egg with straws circling around it and made
a cap like bottom with extended straws to separate the distance of egg from
the ground. We needed the scissors to cut the Straws to make the legs but
that one scissors was nowhere to be found and a member of our group
was like "we need a plan B" since we can't get our hands on that
scissors. So we did our best to make those legs without the scissors,
it's just that it's longer and we decided that the extended straws
will play the part of a defense around the egg. (which at the end we
found that it was useless.)

STEP 5: When the time was ticking with just seconds left the member of
our group rushed to make those legs steady and supportive enough to not
bend with tapes allover it and make sure the egg doesn't slips out of the
straws nest.up to perform the egg dropping. Our egg unfortunately was no
success. The misfortune may have been caused due to the balance of how
the egg was dropped and the way we put the egg together was not protective
enough for the egg to survive  the gravity pull and force pushed around it.