Communication Lab

In this lab me and my partner, Ruby were pretty successful. We found that we succeeded in the types of communication we tried. On our first exercise, where we each described (through iChat) a drawing we had made (so the other person could draw it), we got really close to the target drawing. Ruby first drew a smiley face, it was a little complicated so mine wasn't exactly like hers but it was close, they both looked effectively like smiley faces. Then, I drew a capital E. Ruby's was pretty close it looked like an E. Next, Ruby had to silently communicate the code to unlock a lock through iChat. She very effectively held up the number of rotations, and what number to stop at on her hands. We opened the lock on our first try! We were very proud of our accomplishment, because we had heard many people talking about how hard that part had been. Next we had to use only written (chat) directions to create a sculpture out of toy connect things. We didn't exactly finish, but my start was exactly like hers. I think this lab was helpful for the mission because people going up in space need to be able to communicate really well in all different ways so they can be prepared when things may go wrong and they are in a dangerous position.