The WSC Ping Pong Ball Package Contest Name ______

The Worldwide Sports Companyä would like your help designing the next generation of ping-pong ball packages to make their ping-pong balls fly off the shelves this holiday shopping season.

The ping-pong balls are 3.8cm in diameter. The President of Worldwide Sports Companyä is offering a scholarship to the student who comes up with the best design.

The criteria for the package design are:

1.  The board of directors wants a small package containing 2 balls, a medium package, containing 4 balls, and a large package containing 8 balls. This creates volume constraints.

2.  The president wants the cost of the packages to be considered. This creates surface area constraints.

3.  The marketing division wants the packages to be appealing to customers, to stack easily, and to look good on store shelves.

The Design

You are to prepare an entry for the package design contest. Your task is to design 3 different size packages including the following:

 A description of the shape (or shapes) of the packages you have designed and an explanation for why you selected these shapes.

 Nets for your packages that, when they are cut out, folded and taped together, will make models of your packages. Use centimeter-grid paper, or preferably cardstock, to make your patterns.

 Calculations of how much each of your package designs will cost to construct. The packaging material costs $0.005 per square centimeter.

Your Written Report

You will submit your design and written proposal to WSC. Your written proposal should try to convince WSCä that your designs are the ones they should use. Show them you have addressed WSC’s three criteria.

Write your report to company officials in a manner fitting a serious proposal. Think about presentation; it should be neat, well organized and easy to read so that company officials can follow your work and ideas easily.

First Review of Package Designs

Thank you, ______, for submitting a set of package designs for our Worldwide Sports Companyä ping pong balls. Below is a summary of your project’s review by our evaluators.

The first review evaluates whether you met the requirements for the contest.

Does the proposal include the following?

Are there packages in 3 sizes?

Small package yes no

Medium package yes no

Large package yes no

Description of the shapes of the packages yes no

Explanation of why these shapes were selected yes no

Cost per package yes no

Description of the cost efficiency of the designs yes no

Description of the appeal and stack-ability of the designs yes no

Are patterns that could produce the described containers included?

Small pattern yes no

Medium pattern yes no

Large Pattern yes no

Two Ball Packages

shape / Dimensions (cm) / Surface Area
(cm3) / Cost / Cost per ball / Package

Four Ball Packages

Shape / Dimensions (cm) / Surface Area
(cm3) / Cost / Cost per ball / Package

Eight Ball Packages

Shape / Dimensions (cm) / Surface Area
(cm3) / Cost / Cost per ball / Package