Hi everyone welcome back to another amazing post! In this post I will be talking about something very interesting and something you probably have never done.

One thing in PLP that we do a lot is projects and in some of those projects we use something called the L.A.U.N.C.H. cycle. Launch stands for

L stands for look, listen, and learn about the project

A stands for ask questions about the project

U stand for understanding the problem

N stands for navigate and brainstorm ideas

C stands for create a prototype

and H stands for highlight the good and fix the bad

The project we have been working on in maker the last 2 weeks have helped me understand the launch cycle a lot better.

Now the project, our task was to make an interesting sport with the materials of 2 racquets, string, duct tape, 6 balloons, 5 cups and a wiffle ball. My group made up of Jason, Grace and Taylor had some interesting ideas about what we could do with the supplies.

One of the first things we did when we were creating our sport was to make a survey to see what aspects of a sport our other classmates liked. My question was, What body parts do you like to play sports with? As you can see in the survey below most people in my class like to use multiple body parts when playing.

The next step was to brainstorm questions that people might ask before they play our sport. We made a web on a piece of paper and went around the group writing any questions that we had even if they were really obvious. After we did it as a group, we then went around to the other groups webs and added anything they might of missed. After everyone went around to all the webs ours look like this.

The next thing we did was we got to play around with the materials to get a better idea of what we wanted to use them as.

Once we had our concrete idea we had to make a video about rules and how to play the game.

Once we did all that it was time to launch to an audience. Our audience was another group that designed another sport with the same materials. We set up and started to play our game. It was lots of fun and the inspiration for the name came from Taylor.

Some images when we were playing.

And that was our sport. I hope you enjoy playing llama ball and I’ll see you in the next post 👋