You are a package designer for a toy company. The company needs you to design a "box". You need to minimize the cost of the packaging material, as well as consider uniqueness, stackability and other non-monetary concerns. Packaging material will cost 0.005 cents per sq cm.

Package to ship 12 golf balls with a diameter of 3.8 cm each.

As a team, research/calculate as many designs as possible.

Individually you will submit a minimum of three (3) design proposals for final approval. One design MUST be a cylinder.

Prepare a report for your supervisor detailing all three design proposals.

Include:

• Flat patterns
• Surface areas (and calculations)
• costs (and calculations)
• pros and cons
• recommendation

Use the rubric to self-evaluate your report before final submission. Scoring Rubric

Surface Area Project
Russell S. Byer 1998
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