“Float your boat”

In this experiment we worked in groups of 4 to try to make a boat, that would float and hold the most number of pennies using aluminum foil, one piece of masking tape, 2 toothpicks and 2 marshmallows. We hypothesized that if we built out boat in anĀ origami style, with a dip in the middle, it will float because it mocks a boat and it would hold pennies because the weight would be evenly distributed. We found that using our style boat we could only…