Golf Project
For the golf project, the entire tenth grade built an 18 hole mini golf course. The goal of this course was to teach people about history as they played through.
Building the course was extremely challenging but the most rewarding part. We created a hole about the Cuban Revolution and Missile Crisis. We had to attach turf to our boards of wood and add felt trim on the perimeter. We then cut a border of wood around the perimeter of the boards for the golf ball to bounce off of. This gave us the outline of or course. We then had to make obstacles that were relevant to the event that we had. I created the Sierra Maestra Mountains from Cuba out of clay to show the time when Fidel Castro had to escape from an ambush into these mountains and set up his main headquarters for the Cuban revolution.
After mounting our obstacles onto the course, my group decided to take it further. We created a "hole in one" hole. Our course has three separate platforms; a ramp, an elevated platform, and the final part of the course which was on the floor. We had a tube that went from the elevated part of the course to the part on the floor and into the final hole. In order to get in this tube, the player had to hit ball off the ramp and into a hole that was on the elevate part of the course which was surrounded by a box of blocks. This created an element of fun for the players.
The other obstacles we mounted included a WWIII hole, a "block"-ade around the WWIII hole, and an embargo line that led through a jail cell that represented the Bay of Pigs Invasion. The WWIII hole was another exciting part of the course because if you made it in there then you lost the whole game. It was also surrounded by our blockade. During the Missile Crisis, John F. Kennedy set up an American blockade in order to stop the Russians from sending nuclear missiles into Cuba. If one had gotten through, this would have caused World War III because the U.S. would have seen this as an act of war. The result of the Crisis was an embargo line that was set up between the U.S. and Cuba. This embargo was recently lifted, which is very important historically, and is why we added it to the course. Lastly, the embargo line leads through the Bay of Pigs jail cell because it shows how we have started to have more open relations with Cuba instead of being at each others throats like we were during the time of the Missile Crisis.
This was our final course:
Building the course was extremely challenging but the most rewarding part. We created a hole about the Cuban Revolution and Missile Crisis. We had to attach turf to our boards of wood and add felt trim on the perimeter. We then cut a border of wood around the perimeter of the boards for the golf ball to bounce off of. This gave us the outline of or course. We then had to make obstacles that were relevant to the event that we had. I created the Sierra Maestra Mountains from Cuba out of clay to show the time when Fidel Castro had to escape from an ambush into these mountains and set up his main headquarters for the Cuban revolution.
After mounting our obstacles onto the course, my group decided to take it further. We created a "hole in one" hole. Our course has three separate platforms; a ramp, an elevated platform, and the final part of the course which was on the floor. We had a tube that went from the elevated part of the course to the part on the floor and into the final hole. In order to get in this tube, the player had to hit ball off the ramp and into a hole that was on the elevate part of the course which was surrounded by a box of blocks. This created an element of fun for the players.
The other obstacles we mounted included a WWIII hole, a "block"-ade around the WWIII hole, and an embargo line that led through a jail cell that represented the Bay of Pigs Invasion. The WWIII hole was another exciting part of the course because if you made it in there then you lost the whole game. It was also surrounded by our blockade. During the Missile Crisis, John F. Kennedy set up an American blockade in order to stop the Russians from sending nuclear missiles into Cuba. If one had gotten through, this would have caused World War III because the U.S. would have seen this as an act of war. The result of the Crisis was an embargo line that was set up between the U.S. and Cuba. This embargo was recently lifted, which is very important historically, and is why we added it to the course. Lastly, the embargo line leads through the Bay of Pigs jail cell because it shows how we have started to have more open relations with Cuba instead of being at each others throats like we were during the time of the Missile Crisis.
This was our final course:
In Humanities, we wrote expository papers about our event. I am extremely proud of this writing and you can see it below.
In my particular group, we had to make stands that would hold excerpts from our essays, descriptions of our obstacles, and the math behind each of our golf holes. We came up with the design for it and built eighteen of them. We then teamed up with another group who was in charge of the layout/head of the stand. This was the final product:
As you can see above, we had to create blueprints that showed different ways to beat the course. We had to use three different math techniques to show how to solve the course. These included: the Slope method, the Isosceles method, and the Similar Triangle method. The Slope and Isosceles method both show how the ball reflects and hits off the wall at the same angle it is hit. The Similar Triangle method uses proportions to set up triangular patterns using the triangle's angles.
Thank you for reading, this was a fantastic project!