Title graphic (18k)

Cat World Golf Course By: Chiquita and Samnang
Chiquita and Samnang (11k)

Cat hole (10k)
The Design of cat world golf course: 
First there's a starter place.  After the starter place 
you have to shoot past a cat.  You won't have to hit that 
hard to get across the curved bridge.  Before you get to 
the hole, you will have to get past a thing that turns 
when the marble hit's obstacles that are toothpicks 
which are hot glues laying down.  When you come off 
the bridge, and you go the wrong way you will come to 
some other toothpicks that are standing up. 
After all that there's a cat with its mouth open.  Before 
you get to the cat's mouth, you have to pass a moving 
part. The moving part is two big batteries and a motor.  
Here's how it works: the motor has a stick looking thing.  
On top of that is a piece of white cardboard.  The motor 
is hooked up to the battery and a switch.  When you flick 
the switch the motor turns, that makes the blue straw 
turn, and when the blue straw turns the cardboard turns.  
That makes it hard to get the marble by it.  When you 
manage to get past the moving part then there's the cat 
with its mouth open.
Cat hole (10k)
Cat hole (10k)
What Chaquita and Samnang tried to do was: 
We tried to make the golf course hard because if it was easy 
it would get boring, and people wouldn't be interested in the 
golf course.  We also tried to make the golf course fun 
because when people are doing something they want to have 
fun.  We also tried to make it interesting because interesting 
things are fun to look at.  
Problems we had  
We had problems painting because we got some on our shirts, 
and it was also a problem painting the golf course because 
we tried to paint the bridge and tried not to let the paint 
drip.  We had a problem trying to figure out what to make 
the curvey bridge out of.  We had a problem making the 
moving part, and deciding what it was going to be.  We had 
a problem figuring out how to start the golf course.

How we solved our poblems.  We solved the painting by being 
more careful with painting.  How we solved the bridge part 
was, Karen told us that it would be easier to curve it.  How 
we solved the moving part thing was Karen let me and 
Samnang play with some motor and batteries until we decided 
what we wanted.  How we solved the starting the golf course 
problem was we found our planning sheet. 
Cat hole (10k)

See photos of us working on our golf course


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