The Journey of the Parachute...!

Our group (Gray, Elizabeth, Zelle, and Gabby) have accomplished a lot with the cute pink parachute! :)  We started off with making a ton of test parachutes and later on we made the real model.  The test were really fun though because we could see what we needed to fix or what needed to stay the same.  Around the second test parachute we decided to make the spill hole smaller and make the body of the parachute wider.  Once we made these adjustments it worked.  Then we had to wait for the real fabric to come in.  It took about a week or so for all the material to come in.  Once it was all in we made an outline on the chute with sharpie.  The group decided to cut it in a circle with a really small spill hole at the top.  At the very bottom we are sewing three steel rings on to four different sides of the chute.  This is where we will attach the strings/rope.  Once we are done sewing we will test the entire thing out.