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Your team is
responsible for choosing a company name and designing and building the most
efficient bridge you can out spaghetti.
Be careful with your design and during the building process as
spaghetti is very fragile. But with
care, your team’s finished bridge will be able to challenge the current first
place bridge built in 1999. Each team
will need to choose one of the following jobs:
- Will research the history of bridges and
compile pictures and information describing some of the more famous
bridges ever built.
- During the building process the GM supervises
all employees and makes sure all are doing their jobs.
- Signs and approves building plans and purchase
orders.
- Fills out all applications connected with the
project (salary worksheet, bid worksheet, construction permit, and
insurance applications and keeps all important papers connected with the
project organized.
- Sees that construction site is maintained
neatly and materials are stored safely.
- Helps construct the bridge.
- Performs the duties of anyone absent.
- Will research the design
elements of bridges.
- Runs preliminary planning
sessions with the company to decide on the general design of the bridge.
- Draws the plans for the
bridge to scale on graph paper (top, bottom, and side views).
- Fills out purchase orders
for the type and quantity of materials needed, then gives them to the
accountant for further processing.
- Helps construct the
bridge, making sure the plans are followed.
- Will research basic
information on insurance.
- Prepares the bid
worksheet.
- Designs the company’s
checks.
- Completes each purchase
order, filling in the costs and totals, then gets the GM’s signature
which authorizes the accountant to write the checks for the purchase
orders.
- Writes the company’s
checks for payrolls, services, and materials.
- Keeps balance sheet up to
date by posting checks to balance sheet.
- Requests audit service if
necessary.
- Helps construct the bridge,
when not performing accounting tasks.
- Will research occupations
and briefs team members about their research.
- Leads planning session to
set salaries.
- Delivers checks and
purchase orders to the Bridges R Us warehouse and picks up
supplies. During the
construction phase of the project, the carpenter is the only team member
that can leave the team’s construction site without permission.
- Helps construct the
bridge.
Now, Lets Get
Started – it’s pasta time to start building!
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