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Second task is:
You have to design packaging for rice. The packaging has to be different from what is out there in the market. Apply each one of the SCAMPER techniques and do a write‑up on your findings. Then choose the option that you think would work best and do a sketch of what the packaging would look like.

• Substitute – Use something organic instead of plastic or regular cardboard.
• Combine – A measuring cup in the lid so you know how much one portion is.
• Adapt – Make it look organic by having a 100% organic packaging.
• Modify – Use a completely different shape than usually.
• Put to other uses – When its empty you could either use it as a decoration or something else so it’s not just ending up as waste.
• Eliminate – Remove plastic bags that’s inside of the packaging.
• Reverse or rearrange – If the packaging is made of rice chaff you can use it will be a great additional to you compost.

I like the idea to make the packaging off 100% rice chaff so you can use it in you compost afterward, or if you have different animals that eat hay you can just give it to them. I also would like to see some different looks on the packaging, not just the rectangular boxer or the bags. So I created a hexagon shaped box that is made of chaff, the lid is a measurement cup so you know the right amount of rice you need. There is also a small recycled plastic hexagon in the front so you can see how the rice looks like.

You are given a teaspoon as an object. Now apply each one of the SCAMPER techniques to it and give a brief explanation of what new product comes of this and how it can be marketed.

S – Substitute.
Use wood instead of plastic or metal.

C – Combine.
Make the other end to a fork.

A – Adapt.
Make a rotating center so you can fold the fork down an get access to a knife just like a pocketknife.

M – Magnify-Modify.
Make the spoon bigger to a tablespoon.

P – Put to other use.
Since the spoon is now bigger you can have a mark inside of the spoon that shows you the teaspoon size so you can use it as a measurement.

E – Eliminate.
Eliminate plastic and metal to reduce waste and pollution.

R – Reverse-Rearrange.
Fold it in half so it takes up less space.

For our second assign ment this week we are learning about the SCAMPER model. The activity goes like this: Use the Internet to research the history of the fast food chain McDonald’s and explain which parts of the SCAMPER model are evident in its development onto its current success.

Substitute something

Combine it with something else

Adapt something to it

Modify or Magnify it

Put to other uses

Eliminate something

Reverse or Rearrange it

McDonald’s Corporation is an American fast food company, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States. They rechristened their business as a hamburger stand, and later turned the company into a franchise, with the Golden Arches logo being introduced in 1953 at a location in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1955, Ray Kroc, a businessman, joined the company as a franchise agent and proceeded to purchase the chain from the McDonald brothers.


S – Substitute.

• They replaced the waiters with self-service and drive-in.
• French fries replace potato chips.

C – Combine.

• They combined red and white tiled buildings with big golden arches so people would see them from distant.
• They combined self-service and drive-in/through.

A – Adapt.

• McDonalds is adapting by always look for newer and better architecture.
• They are always looking for new ways to make their food better and also makes healthier food.
• They also adapt by offer gluten free and vegan options.

M – Magnify-Modify.

• You get the menu in different sizes.
• They have changed the logos and the packaging.
• They are always looking for new ways to reduce packaging waist and thinking about the environment.
• They replaced the plastic straws with paper straws.
• They open up their first McCafé.

P– Put to other use.

• They went from being a Bar-B-Q restaurant that was a typical drive-in featuring a large menu and car hop service to become a self-service drive-in restaurant that also offer to have people’s birthdays or other celebrations.

E – Eliminate.

• They went from having a big menu to reduce it to 9 items.
• They removed the plastic straws.
• They eliminated the waiters to become a self-service restaurant.

R – Rearrange.

• The architecture goes from The red and white to Mansard roof to more modern and unique designs.
• You pay before you get your food.
• You order the food by using the big touch screens instead of standing in lines to talk with the staff.

Question 1
Practical assignment (puzzles and fun): 1‑2 hours

Think about the following four riddles and give your answer to each. The purpose is that you should have fun in figuring these out. Why not get a group of friends together and see if you can come up with some creative solutions?

• A man is replacing a wheel on his car, when he accidentally drops the four nuts used to hold the wheel on the car. They fall into a deep drain, irretrievably lost. A passing girl offers him a solution that enables him to drive home. What is it?
  Answer: The girl tells him that he can take one bolt from each of the other tires so he gets three bolts on each tire.

• Two Russians walk down a street in Moscow. One Russian is the father of the other Russian’s son. How are they related?
  Answer: They are husband and wife.
  
• What occurs once in June, once in July and twice in August?
  Answer: The letter “u”, and it’s also the second letter in all of those three months.
  
• Six drinking glasses stand in a row, with the first three full of water and the next three empty. By handling and moving only one glass at a time, how can you arrange the six glasses so that no full glass stands next to another full glass, and no empty glass stands next to another empty glass? What is the minimum number of moves to solve this puzzle?
  Answer: Since it doesn’t say anything about how you are supposed to move the glass I would just pour the water that’s in the second glass over to the fifth glass.