Proj Day Prelims

My group’s presentation was quite satisfactory but we had a problem when it came to the Q&A session. One problem was that one of the judges mentioned that there was probably a similar model on the market. We did not research much into current products, thus we had a problem with answering that question. As of that, the judge seemed to be unhappy with us on the fact that we researched too little on current products. She feels that we are making everyone assume that our innovation will work. We were stuck, thankfully Jason proved that our innovation was better. The current product on the market could only cater to people who wanted to cook with one pot, one wok and one pan. What happens if someone wants to cook with three pots? Thus, he concluded that stoves with adjustable pan supports would cater to almost anyone who cooks, making our innovation better than current market ones.
Next the same judge asked how we would build our innovation. Making a stove with adjustable pan supports proved to be an arduous task. As for that question, we were no able to answer it as we had not taught of how we will make the prototype, only a rough idea which we did not include in our slides. Sad sia..
Another question was whether our group had tested on how much electricity was cooked on our current stoves and how much time was used. We had practically forgotten about doing so, doomed I thought. No choice but had to admit our flaw… I thought that our group had failed. That judge was really frightening in the way which she shot her questions at us. We were the few ‘unlucky groups’ who had to endure her lashing questions. But her questions helped make our group realize our flaws and change for the better. Every cloud has a silver lining. xD. This isn’t defaming ar.. don’t get the wrong idea. Overall, it was fun.