Hello / Kia ora! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*.✧
on Tuesday, me, my class and room 1 made paper planes for a challenge. I had no experience making my own paper planes, so I was nervous about making one by myself. To make it worse, we couldn’t use any tutorials or YouTube. The reason I think we had to make some is because we were going to do another competition about creating a plane out of 1.5 litre bottles, to test our engineering skills and to learn about forces and motion. Me and my friends sat at the blue table and got a piece of paper. This was my first ever time making a paper plane, and there was no turning back. The only paper we had was the one in our hands, nothing else!
But, we were allowed to help each other, but only in words and we couldn’t show the instructions. That was probably so we can try to work independently. To make mine, I just made a regular plane with a few tweaks, like folding the ends up so it looks like a jet. The only bad thing about it was that one half of the plane wasn’t symmetrical and the tip was bending, it also wasn’t pointy! It took a bit long to finish up the details. The last thing I did was write my name and put a little star next to it.
<– Do you like it?
Here, I am holding it up to take a photo. My attempt at making a paper plane might look good, but in real life it isn’t really that good. I tried my best without using tutorials, after all! All of us went to put our planes underneath the TV, one by one. I think the best one was Legend’s plane because it had very sharp edges so it can fly and it also had a unique shape. I didn’t think my one would fly that far because of how I designed it, I didn’t put that much thought into it as well since I didn’t really know what to design it like. On Wednesday (yesterday at the time I am making it), we went with room 1 to go to the hall and gave our planes a test! We had lined up, into 3 or 4 lines. I kinda forgot though. We went to the start of the side of the hall, opposite of the bathrooms, and waited until it was our turn to fly it. My line was first, though. I was shaking and nervous. Holding my plane up in the air, I waited for the whistle, and…. GO!
I threw it as far as I could and… It didn’t go as far as I expected… At least it went kinda far..? One by one, each line went, and by far, Chloe, Gian and Noah went the furthest! We quickly gathered our planes at the spots they landed. Chloe was the winner, so she got a lollipop. I have no idea which flavour it was though. On Thursday, we did another test again, but outside. My class lined up and we went to the metal climbing structure with holes in it. We faced towards the thick wooden poles on the bike track. I got ready and then… 3… 2…. 1….. GO! I chucked mine as far as I could, it still…. didn’t land that far. We did more testing, in the end, Noah, Gian Praise, Memphis and Paora were the top 5! I do not remember which place I got though…
I hope you have enjoyed my awesome writing. This took me almost the whole morning block. Here are some questions:
If you were designing a paper plane, how would you design it and why?
Would you have also needed help to make a paper plane too?
bye bye 
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