The D&Ds: OGDC-UBD Tech Challenge - what actually happened

The OGDC-UBD Tech challenge was held on 6th June 2008. The D&D team gathered as early as before 9am in the Chancellor's Hall. It was a very exciting challenge and to be very frank, I doubt very much that our team would finish till the end. But never try, never know. What do you know? We actually made it till the very end

There were two parts to the challenge. The first part we were required to build a rocket carrying a passenger. The passenger : an egg. The materials provided are : an empty coke bottle, a card board, a piece of manila card, 4 satay sticks (whatever the name is ), a pair of scissor and masking tape.

Do not underestimate the look of our rocket when you finally get to see them. It may look pathetic but our rocket manage to fly of second furthest and I think, we didn't break the egg. Did I tell you that the egg was ermm unboiled egg? as in raw egg? uhuhuh~

So anyway, when we were given our first challenge, I was totally clueless of what to do but thanks to Wan and Chim with their ideas, we managed to built the rocket all by ourselves in 30 minutes! Amazing right? hehe~

When we brought it out for launching, I was really nervous whether our rocket would even launched. The first team (whom I didn't get to know the name of their team, but it was LcK's team right?) launched their rocket and trust me, I was awestruck when their rocket flew off the furthest and everyone was clapping their hands saying that they surely win that first challenge already. Then the second team launched, and it was not too bad. The rocket did flew off but it was less than 3 metres away. Then the third team was one of our Chem coursemate's group. Even their's did not fly off far. About two metres.

Then came our turn. D&D's turn. There Wan got ready to lauch the rocket. First few attempts but the rocket did not fly and i almost thought there were some faults in our rocket. Rupanya it was the OGDc punya air launcher (whatever the name is, again-.-)

so in the end they had to use manual pump or whatever~ so finally our rocket did fly! It flew awesomely quite far! Second furthest to be exact! it was about 5 or 6 metres away from the launching position! woohoo~

Anyhoops, later we were all told to go back into the chancellor's hall for our second challenge. This time the task was to built a strong dome using nothing but newspapers and cellotape. The dome must be strong enough to hold few kilograms of weights and the diameter of the dome should not be less than 15 cm and the height of teh dome should not be less than 10 cm.

So again we set off to work in 30 minutes. We spent the longest time building the bone structure. We need to calculate the base area, the height of the dome, the maximum radius of the dome etc etc. So here was our final measurement.

Radius of Dome = 15 cm (Diameter = 30 cm)

Height of Dome = 20 cm

again, I'm telling you do not underestimate the look of our dome when you see it. It may look sadly pathetic again but honestly, we actually passed all the weights. No wait, what I'm trying to say is that our dome manage to withstand the maximum weights! I think the total weight was 7.5 kg and we passed that! D&Dians, be proud with us! we didn't embarrass you guys especially when we were wearing D&D jersey then! woohooo

So yea, by the end of the challenge the winners were announced and sadly, D&D was not in the top three. But we tried our best, really. If only we had someone else too capture everything that we were doing that day *ahem*zatil inda mau datang support kami yuu~*ahem* then you guys would have seen how much the four of us worked as a team. Congratulations you guys, we did great although we didn't win.