week 10

Open Lab - Introduction

We started with a warm-up. We did the Marshmallow Challenge. It´s a simple task - build the tallest freestanding marshmallow structure, you have 18 minutes, you can use spaghettis, string, tape, paper plates, marshmallow, the entire marshmallow have to be on the top, you can break the spaghetti, string and the tape.

We were divided in groups due to our month of birth. The failed the challenge, I think we were talking to much. First we talked about our ideas and plans, then we build the construction. During the building process, we talk about every little step. So the time went by too fast and in the end our marshmallow structure fell down. 

https://marshmallowchallenge.com/Instructions.html

Afterwards Nicolai gave us a little introduction about our last assignment - the Open Lab. We will present our innovation knowledge to other people. We could choose our group. We had the choice between street group, college group, home group, teacher group, e-group and school group. 

I chose the teacher group, for me it is a huge profit. I can use our project back home, because I´m becoming a primary school teacher and so I can use many different themes. 

We started with brainstorming to find ideas. Francoise came up with the idea „The Imaginary world“. Everyone liked the idea, so we wrote down some nice exercises and planned a project week.  

Then Nicolai gave us an feedback and he really liked the idea, the only reason was that our theme is too big and we should focus on a special theme. 

After that we were brainstorming again. Marie and Kim came up with another idea a restaurant. The aim is that children should create a menu with eco-friendly products. They were so enthusiastic and so they told Nicolai the new idea. Afterwards it was a bad attitude, because nobody ask the group, what they were thinking about. A normal dialog wasn´t possible and we couldn´t find another theme that everyone likes. I think it´s quite hard to find a theme with so many different nationalities. We we decided to divide our teacher group in two. 

Lara, Anna and I chose the topic „the perfect recycling circle“.