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General Card #3506
Crags to Riches: Emphasizing audience with a hands-on clay climbing holds activity
Updated: 1/12/2024 12:10 PM by Stephanie Wettstein
Reviewed: 5/30/2023 9:50 PM by Stephanie Gillespie
Summary
An activity using reusable materials to create climbing holds based on customer requirements to teach students about audience and creating value.
Description

The activity involves students working in groups to design a unique climbing hold using a limited amount of clay and various tools. The participants are required to work in groups and follow specific design guidelines, including creating a hold that is aesthetically pleasing, family-friendly, and safe to be used for climbing. The final design must be larger than 2"x2" and cannot be thicker than 3.5". The holds are then mounted on a pegboard using hex bolts. As an optional incentive, sets of holds can be selected as winners; in this case, one set was selected by the “management team” based on the provided guidelines, one by class vote, and two selected by children (family-friendly criteria). The supplied materials that are provided at different times through of the activity were 8 oz of white Modeling Magic Clay in a zipped baggie, a ruler, approximately 8”x8” pegboard, 3.5" long, ¼" hex bolts, washers, and nuts. The activity aims to promote creativity, problem-solving, collaboration, awareness of audience, and product safety awareness among the participants.

This activity was implemented in a senior-level chemical engineering course, but could be implemented in any level engineering course. Other than the informal voting, no formal assessment was completed.

Connections
  • Integrate information from many sources to gain insight
Creating Value
  • Identify unexpected opportunities to create extraordinary value
  • Persist through and learn from failure
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