9/27/2015

The team tested possible configurations for the payload design. The rules of the competition state that each payload must be two pounds and have a five foot ribbon attached to it. The ribbons can not be tangled and must completely deploy. In order to test their design the team acquired five two-pound containers of salt and attached the ribbons to them.  The ribbons were wrapped up in different configurations. The team then dropped the containers from fifty feet up and watched to see if their design deployed correctly. They discovered that the design that worked best had the ribbon wrapped halfway across the container.

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