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	Life Raft

See the Teaming Chapter for more instructions, hints, tips, and ideas.

The object is to design and build a raft out of aluminum foil that will hold the most number of "people" without sinking or loosing any "people."

• 5 gallon or other large bucket filled with water
• Square of aluminum foil for each team
• Large number of "people" - washers, marbles, ...

• Each team is given only one square of aluminum foil. If it tears, they still have to use it.
• Give the teams 5 minutes to design, build, and test their raft.
• Collect all the rafts at the end to this time.
• Test the rafts one at a time.
• One team member is selected to place the "people" in their raft.
• The team counts the "people" as they are added.
• Keep adding "people" until the raft sinks or a "person" falls out of the raft.
• The raft that holds the most "people" wins.