The spaghetti machine competition. No it not about spaghettis. Yes it is about machines, but what is a spaghetti machine? Certainly not a spaghetti making machine of course. Basically, we are doing a basic action through a rather complex process. The beauty of the process was the goal of the competition. Back then I had the interest for such things, they were quite interesting to me, but seemed impossible to do at my very young age. Now that I have grown up in Cita hati, by taking physics I was one of the first to be offered by Mr Dedy, our beloved Physics teacher. Being excited, I accepted the challenge and formed a team alongside 3 of my friends, Sellina, William N.G. and Alvin.
We were all rookies basically, no fancy physics background nor fascinating scores. We were all new to the competition. At first we were very excited and fired up to how the possibilities are wide open for us to try, the different contraptions in mind. But then, all of that fire was soon significantly decreased when we realized, it was not as easy as we thought it would be. Most of our plans went to scrap and we relied mostly on spontaneous improvisation. At first I felt that I was working alone, knowing that I was the one who came up with most of the ideas up until one point where I said , "Guys, you gotta improvise". At one of our working days I was unable to come and so I had to learn to trust my fellow friends. When I returned, the progress did not seem much but they have conquered a lot of the major problems that we have faced together. There I learnt that I didn't have to put all the burdens on myself but rather learn to trust people.
In the end we finished the spaghetti machine, after completing around more than 20 trials. Unfortunately we did not win any places in the competitions but the most important thing was not the awards, but the experience and time spent together with my friends.
We were all rookies basically, no fancy physics background nor fascinating scores. We were all new to the competition. At first we were very excited and fired up to how the possibilities are wide open for us to try, the different contraptions in mind. But then, all of that fire was soon significantly decreased when we realized, it was not as easy as we thought it would be. Most of our plans went to scrap and we relied mostly on spontaneous improvisation. At first I felt that I was working alone, knowing that I was the one who came up with most of the ideas up until one point where I said , "Guys, you gotta improvise". At one of our working days I was unable to come and so I had to learn to trust my fellow friends. When I returned, the progress did not seem much but they have conquered a lot of the major problems that we have faced together. There I learnt that I didn't have to put all the burdens on myself but rather learn to trust people.
In the end we finished the spaghetti machine, after completing around more than 20 trials. Unfortunately we did not win any places in the competitions but the most important thing was not the awards, but the experience and time spent together with my friends.
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