Pringles Challenge

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Pringles Challenge

• Once you pop, you cant stop.

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Background Information

• Once products are manufactured, they need to be
  transported to the consumer.
• Package designers must create an appropriate
  container.

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Background Information

• They must carefully examine the product and the
  manner in which it will be shipped.
• All containers must meet certain requirements
  regarding what they are created from.

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What you must do

• Create a package design that will allow a single
  Pringles chip to safely survive a trip through
  the U.S. mail system.

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Materials you may use

• 1 envelope
• 5 index cards
• 2 sheets of paper
• 4 drinking straws
• 12 inches of masking tape
• 1 tablespoon of white glue

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Limitations

• You may only use the materials provided
• Your package must be treated as a normal piece of
  mail
• It may not weigh more than 80g.

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Requirements

• You will actually be sending your package through
  the U.S. mail system
• You need room on your package to put the proper
  addresses
• Must have two 39 cent stamps on your package

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Testing

• Impact Test Pringle chip survives the impact of
  a textbook dropped from 12 inches above the
  package - 70
• Conveyor Belt Test Pringle chip survives being
  swiped off a table and landing on the floor 85
• Mail Test Pringle chip is mailed and returns
  unbroken. Deduct two points for every crack or
  crumb. Possible 100

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Definitions

• Structure
• Function

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Structure

• How a thing is made and what shape it is.

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Function

• What a thing does, or what its purpose is.