Bottle Insulation Project

     Our most recent assignment was to insulate a bottle. The bottle had to be easy to transport, durable, and maintain the temperature of the water for thirty minutes. It could be up to five inches wide and ten inches long, could only be assembled using tape and scissors, and had to remain intact after being dropped from thirty inches.
     We started by brainstorming ideas. Each person in our group (there were four of us) came up with three ideas. After listening to each idea, we came up with a design based on the twelve ideas.
      Our final design started with wrapping the bottle in foil-face insulation, then wrapping the foil-face in some sort of green squishy insulation (I'm not sure what it's called). The foil-face and green squishy tube was then inserted into a rectangular cardboard box, and the spaces were filled with cellulose. The cap consisted of a piece of foil-face with a hole in the middle

     The next day we had to test our insulation. We put a cold water bottle inside, put a probe in the water, and took the temperature every two minutes for thirty minutes using the LabQuest 2. Our final increase in temperature was 1.3 degrees Celsius, which is pretty good!