Reflection

There was many things that went well for our team during our mousetrap vehicle experience. The main thing was that we had a lot of fun, even though our vehicle didn't work as well as we had planned. I think during the drag race, our vehicle did very well. We didn't win but our vehicle went the really far and it also went fairly fast. Also, each time we tested our vehicle it went a metre farther so that helped our average. I think as a group, we learned a lot. When we started, none of us knew how we could actually make it move or even how to build one. We also learned some problem solving skills and how to cooperate with team members.

Some future recommendations to help other racers, would be to make sure everything is attached well. The hot glue we used didn't work very well and the pipe holders kept falling off and our mousetrap even fell off. I think that if you want to use hot glue, make sure you use enough or just drill the mousetrap on so it stays on better. Also, to make your vehicle work better, make sure that the string is tight enough so that it goes farther. Most of the time we didn't have the string tight enough so the vehicle would only go two or three metres.  I think if everyone was positive about everyone else's vehicles and didn't put each other down, the activity would go much better.