Free Apparel Launcher Force Field Analysis

Driving Forces

• This device will make pep assemblies much more exciting.
• Students will be interested in obtaining apparel for free.Students will be interested in watching their peers obtaining apparel for free.
• Students will be interested in watching their peers shoot free apparel at them and their peers.
• The ASB will be interested in shooting free apparel at their peers.
• Teachers will be interested in watching their students obtain free apparel.

Barriers

• Students will be jealous of their peers.
• The free apparel launcher will be too strong to use in the gym.
• Getting the administration to allow the ASB students to shoot the free apparel launcher.
• Finding a name for the free apparel launcher that is catchier and less awkward to say.
• Some students will be nervous about other students having free apparel shot at them.
• It will be a safety hazard to shoot free apparel at the students in the rows closer to the ground.
• ASB students will become mad with power and will try to use the free apparel launcher for evil.
• The ASB advisor will become mad with jealous rage and will sabotage the free apparel launcher, making it backfire into the operator and pounding him/her with free apparel.
• The schools administrators will be opposed to letting the students handle an instrument with free apparel launching destructive ability.
• Pressing the benefits of this free apparel launcher.

Barriers I will overcome:

1. The free apparel launcher will be too strong to use in the gym. To overcome this barrier, I will have to construct the free apparel launcher so that it only has enough power to launch the shirts about 20 meters (an approximation of how far it is from the bottom of a set of bleachers to the top of said bleachers). I will try to do this by making the ignition chamber smaller.
2.  Finding a name for the free apparel launcher that is catchier and less awkward to say. I believe that with commitment and adequate creative skill, I will be able to overcome this incredible barrier. Whether through alliteration, rhyming, or clever use of puns, I will be able to give the free apparel launcher a name that will strike excitement into all who hear it.
3. It will be a safety hazard to shoot free apparel at the students in the rows closer to the ground. This is a very interesting opportunity to allow the ASB students to practice their knowledge of physics. If the free apparel hits the students in the front row too hard, the launcher might consider stepping backwards a couple meters, and trying again. Through this system of trial-and-error, the operator could determine what would be a safe distance to launch the free apparel at the front row students