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Cobe Maldonado and James Meade

         This year in our innovation studio, our class was given the task of making multi-purpose furniture. I was in the group of Cobe and Jack, and we created a table that could fold up easily so that the owner could roll it. At first we made a cardboard model consisting of paperclip leegs, so that we could simulate the rolling part of the table. This model ran into a problem however, it could not hold any weight without collapsing. We went back to the drawing board and made a cardboard model that had cardboard circular legs so that it could still roll, but also hold up weight. The only problem was is that the table could still not hold any weight. Next, we went to the lasercutter and cut out a model made out of thin wood. A Nuvu coach, Pedro, helped us out with our legs, he helped us make them more circular because at the time they were more ovular. In doing this the table would be able to roll, also, Pedro helped us keep the table in place while rolling by adding a slot in the legs so that when the table folded up, the tabletop would fall into those slots and stay put. After making the wood model, we decided it was time to try and make something life size. We went to Mr. Judy so that he could help us with all of the measurments. While making this life size model, we came across one problem, all of our measurments were at 1/10 scale,  so we had to blow everything up to actual size. All in all, we ended up making our table and we would love to continue improving it, maybe by making our next model out of composite plastic.