Digital Notebook Template 

 
Team Members listed with contact information 
❖ Grant Garland- School - (9th, Ladue) ​Project Manager 
➢ Email: ​ggarland60@ladueschools.net 
➢ Cell: 314-239-6604 
❖ Akash Upadhyay - (9th, Ladue) 
➢ Email: ​aupadhyay73@ladueschools.net 
➢ Cell: 314-563-1020 
❖ Evan Singer - (10th, Ladue) 
➢ Email: ​esinger71@ladueschools.net 
➢ Cell: 314-570-3415 
❖ Barry Currie - (10th, Ladue) 
➢ Email:​ ​bcurrie67@laduschools.net 
➢ Cell: 314-625-3213   
❖ Nicholas Henry Strand - (Senior, Clayton High School) 
➢ Email: ​nstrand40@claytonschools.net 
➢ Cell: 317-440-5007 
 
 
TEAM NORMS 
❖ Code of conduct 
➢ Respect everyone’s ideas. 
➢ Act professional when working on the project. 
❖ Communication  
➢ Frequency: ​Check email everyday (make sure to check during class and use ​REPLY ALL​). Turn 
notification on for GroupMe (we should use iMessage if everyone has an iPhone). 
➢ Method: ​Email and GroupMe. 
❖ File Management 
➢ Naming system:​ Name using the Hole number.​ (Ex: Hole7.version1) 
➢ Revision: ​If revision is made, then notify other group members.​ (Ex: Hole7.version2) 
❖ Team Decisions 
➢ Process for making decision:​ Make sure everyone in the group agrees to it. 
➢ Process for dealing with differences of opinion/conflict:​ Respect everyone’s ideas and be 
open to other people’s opinions. 
Team Norms read and understood by Akash Upadhyay on 4/10/18.  
Team Norms read and understood by Nicholas Strand on 4/10/18.  
Team Norms read and understood by Evan Singer on 4/11/18.  
Team Norms read and understood by Barry Currie on 4/11/18.  
Team Norms read and understood by Grant Garland on 4/12/18.  
 
 
Step 1: Define the Problem 
Client​ : Mall of America Target Consumer​ : Mall patrons 6-60 years old 
 
Problem Statement​ : The Mall of America in Minneapolis, MN has designated an area of mall space to construct an 
indoor mini-golf course. Mall of America executives have placed a call for design concepts from the leading design 
firms across the United States. Your design team will be one of several teams who will pitch a design concept to MOA 
execs. The winning concept will receive the contract to design and build a state of the art mini-golf course in the 
MOA. 
 
Design Statement​: Competing design teams will submit 9-hole mini-golf course design concept illustrating the 
team’s overall idea for a mini-golf theme that will attract mall patrons.  
 
Constraints: 
1. All holes within a group must have a consistent theme. 
2. Entire minigolf course cannot exceed 12,000 square feet.  
3. Each hole cannot exceed 25’ x 20’. (Suggestion: ​Create each hole base with 25’by 20’ by 1’) 
4. Holes can have elevated features up to 5’, but appropriate safety precautions must be taken. 
5. All components of the hole must be less than 5’ tall. 
6. Pathways as needed to move from hole to hole must be a minimum of 36” wide. 
7. Each hole assembly must use a base, tee-off pad (provided by the Project Manager), and scoring podium 
(provided by the Project Manager).  
8. Each hole assembly will include a walking path part file that provides access to the previous and next holes, 
also all other part files needed for the design of the whole.  
Remember when transferring files, it is ESSENTIAL you know what version of Inventor is being used AND ALL PARTS 
MUST BE WITH THE ASSEMBLY. 
9. All 3D modeling should be done to FULL SCALE. ​Be mindful of scale and units! 
 
Step 2: Ge​nerate Concepts 
❖ Preliminary sketches from all team members ​(Be sure to include annotation or descriptions as necessary to 
be able to fully communicate your ideas) 
 
Grant’s preliminary sketch↓ 
Akash’s preliminary sketch↓ 

 
Evan’s preliminary sketch↓ 

 
Barry’s Design

 
 
 
 
 
 
Nicks Design
 
 
 
❖ Theme Ideas 
➢ Hockey 
➢ TSA 
➢ Veganism 
➢ Camping 
➢ Dude Perfect 
➢ Space 
➢ Cars/Trucks/ETC. 
➢ Aviation 
➢ Basketball 
➢ Memes/Dead Memes 
➢ Call Of Duty 
➢ Spongebob 
➢ Engineering 
➢ USA (patriotism) 
➢ Marvel Super Heroes 
➢ DC Super Heroes 
➢ Greek Mythology 
➢ Video Games 
➢ Anime 
➢ Soda 
➢ Food 
➢ Sports 
 
Rate your top 5 in the survey below 
● https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSccUJQURJYhhgo1AsvxJ8m23PpmYO1s0aB_r3_D9_aQXwU7_A/v
iewform?usp=sf_link 
 
 
 
Step 3: Develop a Solution 
Roles Responsibilities 
Project Manager: Grant Garland Ex: Create base, scoring pad, etc 
Design Engineer: Akash Ex: Holes 1-3 
Design Engineer: Evan Ex: Holes 4-5 
Design Engineer: Barry Ex: Holes 6-7 
Design Engineer: Nicholas Ex: Holes 8-9 
 
❖ Identify team roles and divide all work for the project up amongst teammates 
❖ Use a decision matrix to determine which teammates design will be used.  
❖ Sports for Holes 
➢ 1: Soccer 
➢ 2: Football 
➢ 3: Basketball 
➢ 4: Hockey 
 ➢ 5: Automotive Racing 
➢ 6: Baseball  
➢ 7: Tennis 
➢ 8: Skiing 
➢ 9: Golf 
 
➢ Personal Preference Matrix (1=good and 5=bad) 
Designer  Evan’s  Barry’s  Akash’s  Grant’s  Nicholas’s  Totals 
Rating  Rating  Rating  Rating  Rating 

Evan’s    1  3  2  2  8 
Design  

Barry’s  4    4  3  1  12 
Design 

Akash’s  1  1    1  4  7 
Design 

Grant’s  2  2  1    3  8   
Design 

Nicholas’s  3  3  4  3    13 
Design 
 
➢ Decision Matrix  
Designer  Personal  Meets  Easy for  TOTAL 
Preference  Constraints  Customers to 
Rating  (yes = 0, no =1)   understand 
(easy=1, hard=5) 

Evan’s  8  0  3  11 
Design 

Barry’s  12  0  5  17 

Design 

Akash’s  7  0  2  9  
Design 

Grant’s  8    0  3  11 
Design 

Nicholas’s  13  0  2  15 

Design 
 
❖ Create sketches as needed to document all ideas. 
 Grant’s sketches 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Evan’s Sketches 

 
Barry’s Sketches 

 
 
Akash’s sketches 
  
Nicks Sketches 
  
 
❖ Establish a Entry/Exit Diagram of entire course layout.  
 
General Standards for Hole Design: 
  Base is extruded 12in thick   
All sidewalks are 36 in wide 
 Green/Grass is extruded 3.5in into base  
Sidewalks are extruded 1 in deep into base 
 
Step 4: Construct and Test Prototype 
❖ Daily updates from team members about progress. ​Example in purple below... 
❖ File sharing when necessary 
Make sure to upload all the finished part files into our team folder so that we can all access them. 
4/5/18 
- Hannah started hole 2 here a screen of the end of my work from today. 
- Billy in second hour worked on …. 
4/6/18 
- Steve uploaded finished “scoring_podium.ipt” to google folder. Updated presentation and gantt chart.  
Nick uploaded his drawings Friday, April the Thirteenth, Two Thousand and Eighteen 12:56:36 PM  
Nick filled out decision matrix Monday, April the Sixteenth, Two thousand and eighteen, 12:57:23 PM 
Grant filled out personal preference matrix----- 4/17/18 
Akash filled out personal preference matrix----- 4/17/18 
Grant finished decision matrix----- 4/17/18 
Grant uploaded tee off pad and hole sign in team folder------ 4/18/18 
Grant worked on bases in Inventor and uploaded some to Google Drive folder-----4/25/18 
Akash uploaded specific hole designs-----4/25/18 
Nick uploaded Hole 8 STP File 4/25/18 
Evan worked on hole #4 and #5 
Grant uploaded all of the bases-----4/26/18 
Grant worked on rental, shop, restrooms, and vending area-----4/30/18 
Akash worked on hole 1------4/30/18 
Grant worked on central feature----5/1/18 
Evan worked on putting hole 4 together - 5/2/18 
Grant worked on restrooms, restaurant, and vending machine area----5/3/18 
Akash worked on hole 2 and finished hole 1----5/3/18 
Barry worked on hole 6 and 7 will complete after school 
Evan uploaded assemblies for holes #4 and #5 and put all assemblies into a folder called hole assemblies - 5/7/18 
Grant assembled holes---5/8/18 
Akash finished hole 1, 2, and 3 and started the drawing file for hole 1----5/8/18 
Grant assembled holes, worked on final assembly, and drawing file---5/9/18 
Akash worked on the presentation and drawing files of hole 1 and hole 2---- 5/9/18 
Evan uploaded the final version of hole #5 - 5/9/18 
Nick Uploaded updated assemblies for holes 8 + 9 and uploaded drawings into presentation 
Grant worked on final assembly and drawing---5/10/18 
Akash added holes 2 and 3 to the presentation and finished up the presentation---5/11/18 
Grant worked on the presentation---5/11/18 
Grant worked on the presentation--- 5/13/18 
Step 5: Evaluate Solution 
❖ Each member will complete an individual project evaluation/reflection and submit it to your specific 
teacher. Ladue will submit via weebly and Clayton will submit via canvas.  
❖ This section on the digital notebook will ultimately say “See individual group member evaluations” 
Consider the following prompts to help guide your reflection. Be sure to provide ​insightful ​comments. There should be 
at least one paragraph reflecting on each topic below.  
 
Topic 1​: Engineering Concepts Learned/Applied 
❖ What is a Gantt chart and how can it be utilized for large projects? Was it beneficial for this 
project? How so? If it was created and then never looked at again by you and your teammates 
why? How could it have been beneficial?  
❖ Describe why professionals will utilize a decision matrix to make important decisions?  
 
Topic 2: ​Teamwork, Organization, Work ethic, Communication, Team Norms 
❖ How did this project go for you overall? Did you and your partners work well together? Why or why 
not?  
❖ Did establishing team norms prior to beginning the actual work of the project help build 
understanding of expectations for each other? 
❖ What is at least one thing your group could have done better in this project?  
 
Topic 3: ​Your Solution 
❖ How does your design compare to the other groups? Do you see something that you wish you would 
have added into your design? 
 
Step 6: Present Solution 
❖ Link to group presentation 
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1F28oBEIaP6z3Ul9aJUldGd7au6vUG1OP0EgncTrbnlw/edit#slide=id.g35f57cd
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