Foil Boat Design Challenge

The Foil Boat Experiment

  By Emma and Kathleen

We had to design a boat with our table group that could hold the most amount of marbles.    
After planning our design on paper we then had the opportunity to make a boat out of foil.  We then got to put our boat in the water and we also had to put marbles in it to see who got the most in their foil boat.

Amount of marbles that each boat could hold:
Gangsters: 67
Treblemakers: 45
Ghostbuster: 34
Chatterboxes:17
Fantastic 6: 15


The Gangsters table were able to have the most marbles in their foil boat.  We had to evaluate our boat to see what we could fix or replace to make our boat hold more marbles. In the treblemakers evaluation they realised they "needed to not leave any gaps and create a thicker platform." The Ghostbusters thought their boat sank because "Water starting coming into the boat and made it sink." The Fantastic 6 discovered that they needed to re-look at their design "Because the boat fell on it's side which made the water go in the boat."


We will be trying this again and see if we can improve the number of marbles our boat can hold.