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I-Cubed - Tri-fold Guidelines

Tri-Fold Guidelines

Using your reflections in Google DOCS, you must summarize your information to be displayed on your Trifold.  You must discuss the following:

·          Name of Product

·          Your products slogan

·          Problem statement

·          Paragraph(s) including the possible solutions to the problem and the evolution of your final product design.   You should include an analysis of why you chose the materials you did to make your product, the production costs.

·          Summary of strengths and weakness of design/materials

·          Survey questions and results displayed graphically. 

·          Labelled diagrams of your various designs and final product.

·          Concluding paragraph describing the evolution of your idea from problem to product with suggestions for possible improvements.  

I-Cubed Blogging: Please make sure the following sections are complete...

Building Process

Besides answering the following questions, you could also include photographs at each of the stages of your build to include in your blog and final tri-fold presentation

1.       How is your group working together so far (communication, power, participation, etc)

2.     What did you accomplish today? Who did what?

3.      Did you encounter any challenges when building your design?

4.     Did you modify/change anything from your original plan?

5.     Did you make any decisions? What are they? How do you and your group come to these decisions?

6.     What do you need to do next?

7.     Outline your group’s plan for the building phase?

8.     What jobs need to be done? By whom? By when

The Testing Process

1.      Explain the procedure that your group developed to test your product (or part of your product).  What were you testing?  Why did you choose this feature to test?  What were your controlled variables?  What was your responding variable?  What was your manipulated variable?

2.     Does your invention work?

3.     Do you need to modify it to make it better?

4.     What changes could you make?

5.     Did you modify/change anything from your original plan? 

Marketing Process

1.      Do you have a catchy name for your product?

2.     Do you have a slogan for your product?

3.     What did it cost to produce?  What are the individual unit costs for each part?

4.     What price would you sell it for?

5.     Who is your target market for your product?

6.     What colors would attract consumers to buy your product?

7.     What was life like before your product existed?  What is life like with your product?