Hello dear readers. I’m back with another make blog post. This post will be particularly short as we only worked on the past project for two weeks. The project was to team up with a few peers to create a new sport through with guidance of the Launch Cycle.
Now you may ask yourselves what is the Launch cycle. You can watch the video below to help you understand what it is, but I’ll be explaining it as well as what we did to make our sport.
My group members were Anika, Caleb, and Lucy.
The L: Look, listen, and learn
At the start, we started reading about the challenge we were given, how to follow the LAUNCH process and looking at our time and material limits.
The A: Ask tons of questions
Our teacher gave us a booklet to fill out to guide us through the launch process. At the questions part, we started making surveys for our classmates to see if they were athletic, competitive, to see if they liked individual sports or team sports, and things like that. This step was extremely helpful in making a sport. We needed to know what would be successful among our class.
The U: Understand the problem
During this step, we were given the materials to look at them and start thinking about possible ideas. We needed to know what we were dealing with and taking in mind the information we got from our surveys.
The N: Navigate ideas
Our group had come up with many ideas for a sport, but we had to narrow them down. We started taking out ideas that didn’t seem like that much fun, or were too extreme and unlikely that people would succeed in them let alone try them.
The C: Create a prototype
I wasn’t at school when my group went through the majority of this step, but I was there when we were brainstorming ideas and tried to kind of play our game. However when my group made an intructional video of our sport and named it. Below is the link for our intructional video.
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The H: Highlight and fix
While trying out our game, we only had our four group members, and two volunteers from another group. We quickly realized that it wouldn’t have much success if we didn’t have more players. We decided that we needed at least four players per side + the goaltenders (so five aside). When we actually tried it, we had like ten players aside and it was a great as everyone was involved and running around.
LAUNCH:
Finally after all had been done we went out to the school’s parking lot and played our game with our classmates. It ended up 2-2 after the game. Most people said that it was like a mix of handball and basketball.
Click on the link below to watch a time lapse of my group’s game.
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Reflection:
After the two weeks I found the project quite fun and helpful for our next project (soon be making another blog post). The activity we did to follow the Launch Cycle I found was pretty fun and it kept me involved the whole project as well as everybody else in our group. An activity like creating a sport was interesting for me and I would do it again with no problem.
