The final Inventor project of the year was to work with a group and construct a 9 hole mini-golf course for the Mall of America. This project was coupled with a field trip to Swing Around Fun Town's golf courses to get inspiration for our own course. Another element was the distance of the group work, with every group member coming from a different class, and one even coming from another school. We had to work past this by meeting up, setting up communication systems or anything else to ensure completion of the course. In the end the hole designers would submit their holes to the designated project manager, who would construct the assembly file of the final course. Every group member also presented the entire project to their class and as always filling out the E.N. notebook was necessary.
E.N. Notebook:
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Annotated Drawings of My Holes:
Here are the annotated drawings of the holes I constructed for the project. The holes on the left and middle had additional elements that would not show up in these drawing files. However my hole on the right is complete and works well in the course. However my group did not converse on a constant grass color, so I thought multi color would work, which didn't end up looking good in the end.
Final Course:
By following the red arrows you can see the flow of the course, going in a clockwise direction around the central feature.You can see my holes in their respective places in the bottom right and left corners. Some things wouldn't show up for my holes such as tree and flower obstacle. The holes located at the top of the course are incomplete due to one member of the team not follow the theme or finishing the hole.