Owen and Paul's Lab book Monopolizer’s

The Problem The Mission The world has been thrown into turmoil! The government is being run by fools and criminals. The economy has crashed and we have been plunged into a second great depression. The Mission Our mission is to build machines and help the economy to persevere and preserve our future for the good of mankind. We will build money making machines to make ourselves rich… I mean help the economy.

Presenting Your Ideas Ugly Average Wicked, Awesome, Sick, Far Out Cool

Gear Trains Control .1 speed .2 strength .3 direction

Choose and Use Tricks #1 Collect premium quality junk and sort it into containers. #2 Conserve materials when possible. #3 Use pliers or wire cutters to cut wire and other hard stuff. #4 Only use a little bit off glue and apply a lot of pressure. #5 Build to modify or to fix designs.

#2 Change your designs easily #3 Make your contraptions reliable Build-It-Blocks Modular Construction #1 Build quickly #2 Change your designs easily #3 Make your contraptions reliable

Spinning the Wheel Our robot is called “Paul Bunyan’s” fortune teller It tells your fortune while you watch him cut down trees You can be stingy or fun, not fun or very clever. If you don’t care for such things you can spin the roulette wheel 0,1,3,4,5,7,8,10, the numbers of M&Ms you can get in one spin Try to get ten, Hey it’s only twenty five cents, Who knows, you might get ten every time, If you’re lucky.

#1 Does it do something useful? #2 Does it use creative materials? Measures of Success #1 Does it do something useful? #2 Does it use creative materials? #3 Does it look “way cool”

Problem Solving Tricks #1 Define the problem and set goals #2 Share ideas #3 Work together #4 Break your solution into parts #5 Document your ideas