Cardboard Canoe Challenge

My team and I earned 13 Achievements.  Our design was based off of the boats in WWII and the drop boats designs.  We were mainly going for the idea of the angle in the front we did not really want it for the angle but the angle that it gave you at the bottom of the boat and that was all we cared about.  Our boat was able to float but it was not stable enough so it just rocked everywhere and just capsised and then it was over.  But our boat was also very hard to sink we kept ttrying to get it to sink and it would just not go to that was an achievement all on its own.
1. Define the problem and Brainstorms solutions- The problem that we faced was to build a canoe that would be sturdy and be able to be fast enough to beat all of the other teams.
1, indian canoe
2. saving private Ryan
3. v-bottom
4. outriggers
5. sailboat
6. hampster ball
7. submarin
8.box
9. paddleboard
10.kayak
2. Criteria & Constraints-the one constraint that we were going for was to be the longeset in the water becuase we were making a very sturdy design that would not sink and had high wall so that water would not get in.
3. Sketch Ideas here are the pictures of the sketches that we did.
4.  Prototype Ideas- we alswo did prototypes of ideas that we had.
5. Select an Approach- we we did the idea from the Saving Private Ryan and went with the that design to go with for are project
6. Surface area!-our surface area was 63.7 ft^2
7. Build It!-This is a picture of our final design
8. The Early Bird Gets the Achievement- we were the first ones to finish our desing and we even had time to add some design to our boat.
9. The Longest- even though are team sank we could not get are boat under and destroy it so we were still afloat when time was called.
10. Videographer- we did take a video but we still have to get it up but we have a picture
11. Feedback-1. more ductape 2. outriggers 3. longer hull 4. longer rope 5. could make it a v-bottom 6. put the weight in the middle 7. make it a higer wall 8. also have a paddle. 9. make it a lot bigger 10. have a lighter person in the group
12. How Low Did You Go?-we lasted about 5 minutes in the water until the boat capsised
13. Redesign- if we were going to redesign the boat we would probalb y go with a wider design and have a paddle in order to be able to move and have a more stable deisgn by adding outriggers.
14.(Make Your Own Achievement)- The achivement that i had in mind was being able to have your boat surviv when someone jumps into it from the deck of the pool.