Assignment

Some activites that I am involved in and that i also like doing, include, soccer, surfing, tennis, and skateboarding. My coach uses blogging in soccer to tell us what time our practices are and his opinions on how the team is doing. I might see myself blogging about tennis in the future maybe when i am in the buisness.

Tennis Ball Activity

 All the team members in our group had to touch the tennis ball without each member in the group touching it twice, and also two members in the group could not be touching the ball at the same time. For the first challenege where everyone just had to touch the ball, our team came up with an idea that we would all put our hands in the middle, then our team captain Austen, would rub the ball on all of our hands. This idea worked very well and we won the first challenge. The second challenge was the same, everyone could touch it, but the two members could not be touching it at the same time. Our idea for this was to put the ball on the ground then individually we each touch the ball. This was actually a very good idea, but we lost this round, the other team did a funnel like idea, which I dont think followed the rules, but I guess they walked out of that one with the win. The third round, we had to all touch the ball, no one could touch it at the same time as another teammate, we were all armswidth spread apart, and we could not pass the ball to the person right next to us. We threw the ball too the person past the person next to us quickly, and this worked very well, we ended up winning this round. For the fourth and final round, everyone had to be on armswidth apart, and eyes closed and everyone had to touch the ball. Our groups idea for this was that Austen would be standing in the middle, and we would stick out arms out. He would put his arm at the same level as our arms. With all of our eyes closed, he spun around touching the ball to all of our hands. With sweet victory acquired, we walked away from this game winning 3 out of the 4 rounds played.

At Sea Activity

At Sea Activity!
Intro: A brief summary of the activity.
-The thing that we did in this activity was we gathered a list of materials. We were told to organize these materials in a list that we found most important. We also had a group to talk to about what we found to be best and worst.

Personal Prioritization: List your prioritization of the items. Share your reasoning on your top 2 picks and your bottom choice. Were there any items you had a hard time choosing a ranking for?

-My top pick was the shaving mirror, because it could serve as a reflection device for savior. My second choice was water, because you need it to survive and is useful for staying hydrated.

-My two bottom choices were the alcohol, and the chocolate bars. My reasoning on these were that the alcohol would dehydrate you, and the chocolate bars were candy, that is not good for your body, and could make you more thirsty.

Team Prioritization: What priority did your team agree on? Talk about an item the group ranked similarly to you. What was something the group ranked far differently than you? What was something you and the group ranked similarly? How did your group work together?

-Both me and my group agreed that the water and the shaving miror would b ranked as numbers 1 and 2. But something that was ranked considerably differently for me was the chocolate, they said that if they were dying they wanted some chocolate to chow on.

-We both ranked the fishing kit at about number 5, since it wasnt that important, but its not like it was a waste of time.

-Overall, me and my group worked well together, we came to a team concensus that we could all agree on.

Expert Prioritization: How did your choices compare to the "official" Coastguard choices? Were there any big surprises between the two? What do you put more weight in, expert opinion or experiential data? Why?-Our team was really far off from the expert choices. The experts were more concerned about getting us rescued, so they put the oil up at the start of the list.

-I would actually probably put for weight in the experiemental data instead of the coast guards data, considering they are only concerned about how easy it is for them to rescue someone.

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