Hello Everyone!
I had the pleasure to work with a great team of three, Jordon, Pacus and myself. I was kind of nervous in the beginning as we were the only group who had the least number of people but I turned out that we three were a great team. As Susan had provided a link for the borrromean ring project, it turned out that it was the only website that had any information on the cube that we wanted to make. As soon as we realized that this was our only source with very brief description on how to make the cube, we decided to follow the only picture avaiable on the website. It was interesting how we collectively figured out the base case of the cube which was the real borromean ring of the structure. After we figured out the base case, we tried to apply the same technique to the base that we needed for the cube which involved 3 paper clips for each side, total 9 paper clips. It was difficult to work with 9 paper clips as it required a lot of force to bend them and Pearce through them. It was exciting to finally have a base for our cube that involved 9 paper clips. After this the process seemrd easy as we just had to repeat what we had done until we realized that the paper clips that we had were too small to hold a cube that had 3 layers of 3 paper clips on each side. Therefore, we ended up making a cube that was hollow from inside but had the same structure as the one that we saw online.
Along with this experience i also want to share my inquiry experience that lead me to make a shape that had 8 triangles and multiple parallelograms. I was simply playing around with paper clips using the borromean ring idea and came up with this structure. Overall, it was a very good experience and that you can come up with completely something new on our own was an incredible feeling.
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