As Project Collision shifted due to the Coronavirus from a collaborative school project to an individual home project, a big challenge that I faced was to turn some assignments in on time. This was because I sometimes get sidetracked and off task when I am supposed to be working, leading to not having enough actual work time to get work done. To overcome this challenge, I made a plan every day and forced myself not to get sidetracked until I get it done, and when I finished what I planned for the day, I allow myself to get off task for a few minutes just for the satisfaction of doing so.

This project also made me think differently, before this project I used to think that parachutes have no holes and there would be no point making a parachute with a hole, because that would just speed up the fall, now I think that it is important for a parachute to have a hole or else your parachute might sway a long way from where you planed for it to land. In other words, your parachute wouldn’t be accurate and if you’re skydiving or something, you might land in a sea that is beside where you were supposed to land :P. An example is, when I was testing, my parachute that had a hole, has an average of landing 0.55 meters away from the landing point, and my parachute without a hole landed with an average of 0.63 meters away.

Project Collision also made me realize how important using data is to support what you are saying is. Looking back on this project, I learned that I needed to have data to support my claim, or else no one will believe it since they won’t have any reason to. Plus, if I don’t support my claim with evidence, then I might make the wrong decision for the team and that just isn’t the best thing on earth that could happen. One area where data supported my thinking was when I said that a hole in the parachute makes it more accurate, data showed that the parachute with a hole had an average of landing 0.55 meters away from the landing point, but the parachute with no hole had an average of landing 0.63 meters away, which proves that a parachute with a hole is more accurate.