What's the prompt

Our prompt was to create a musical intervention that is interactive to entice people to come into our school. We really had to think about what are we trying to accomplish by the end of the school year and make a large impact on our school community. Mr. Smail gave us our restrictions of were we can build our project and what the main purpose of build our intervention.  

How are you going to address the prompt

We have decided to address our prompt by creating and interactive marble run. The marble run that we have created has is made up of three wooden boxes, pvc pipes, marbles, and recycled bottles. Our goal for this project was to make the best possible musical intervention and make it enjoyable for students walking into our school

How its played

Our marble run starts at the top of a brick wall and goes through a  box with recycled bottles. When our metal marble hits the glass bottle it projects noise and the different size bottles, means different sounds. There are a total of three boxes and each one looks like the other. The marble gets back up to the top by a hand held crank, and the process repeats itself.

What have you learned

One thing that we have learned from this project was to preserve. We have had limited time on this project and time plays a big role when creating big projects like ours. We had smaller groups working to a common goal, to get this marble run done. We also learned teamwork during this project because things can get out of hand when working on a big project like ours. So teamwork was definitely important to us when working on the marble run.

Next steps

Our next step for this project are really to make it final and make it look as nice as it can look. We hope our final marble run can perform to the best to its abilities. Eventual I hope our group can work on paint ing our project and make it look very nice and catch people eye when walking into the school.

Presedents     

I was inspired for this project by a marble machine that play music. When I first saw this I was amazed by the complexity and the sounds it created. It really got me thinking about our prompt and how we could make it to our guidelines. Overall, I feel that we have worked really hard on this project, and we hope you will enjoy the woodstock marble run.