Paper Tower Challenge

According to my point of view , We done it in our PPD session. It is not a game. It is a marvelous challenge for Se guys. It is a group activity which can be develop our soft skills without get in academic career .Leadership skill, Speaking skill in others, time management and thinking skills are some of them.

…Definition about paper tower challenge…

First, all of se guys divided by three groups by counting.in this challenge. We were provided a gum tape twelve papers and a pair of scissors. Then, the tower that we built in the given place outside of the class. Then we have to build the tallest tower use in papers within the given 45 minutes. Madam Sarasi told us discuss with guys in group to how to do that and make a plan for it .Madam gave marks for the height, balance and rigidity of the tower. All of us went outside and started to make the tower. Madam Sarasi told us don't use “Sinhala”  to speak. She wants to improve our speaking ability in English. She walked from group to group watching our work and reminding to speak in English. Finally all our groups make towers which were able to stand on the ground.

…Problems that occurred & way of solving…

We were building the tower. Tower was increasing its height eventually. After increasing the height of the tower for sometimes, we noted a problem of the tower. It was bending towards the earth. We discussed each other and identified the issue. It was a simple theory. The weight point of the tower is growing up because of the height of the tower. We thought about that and got through it with a solution.  We added four legs to the tower and the legs were more heavy than the tower. We got the weight point down with the help of this method. We made a small thing to fix at the top of the tower, but unfortunately we were unable to fix it because of the balance problem and lack of time. We worked hard to our paper tower challenge in to a successful one.

We clasped our responsibilities to get more advantages from the limited time. We focused on our own task and got it very deeply and made a early plan about the process of the job. When we face the problem of balance losing we discussed about it selected the most successful and most quick solution and implement it as soon as possible. Unfortunately, we can’t do our best.

…To our life through…

We got many tips from this task to our life. The main thing is listening to the leader and following him. Listening to the other members is also main thing I got to my life. We were able to make our job more creative with it. Thinking creatively is also a good thing I added to my life. I learnt that early preparing for a task is also a good habit. The awareness of deadlines is also helped us to make our challenge successful.