Project building a soapbox

Report of the project "building a soapbox"

We learned that it isn’t that easy to build a soapbox without any experience and guidance, especially without the material and that one has to make compromises sometimes, like we had to do when we knew that idea with the motor wouldn’t work in such short time. We also found out that it is important to not give up too fast.
About the communication with the Indian students we learned, that it is not very easy to build something, if one does not really speak the same language. And it is very individual how the Indians behave when there is some work to do and they are not together in their group, but separated and on their own. But it was fun to work with them and in the end we were a good team, because everyone had his own tasks, especially Brighu really liked to work with us and could help us a lot.
All in all it was a lot fun and to see the result of the work we have done together. We ourselves are very proud of our soapbox.
But we did not have enough time to build a long lasting one. Our soapbox would have been quiet better, if we had a few days more.
But especially for the relation to the Indian guys, the project work was a very good thing, because there were no divided groups of Indians and Germans, so that we all had to work together and to help each other. That made us to learn to know about the other culture and personalities very much. We had become a good team, when the project work was over.

The link to our presentation:
http://prezi.com/zx9bkf7yl8u7/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

 Ann-Kathrin, Brighu, Christopher, Jari, Johanna & Mehak

                                            First step: Procurement of the necessary materials

 

Second step: Put the ideas into practice with the available material

 

The result