Name: David Pelz

Date: 01/04/2015

Dates Covered in Project: 09/05/2014 – 11/16/2014

Internship Organization: Redrock International

Final Project

Introduction:

All of the material discussed in this final project focusses on the buggy and balance bomb projects given to me

for my internship with Red Rock International. My responsibilities were not limited to the material discussed

in this project. My staff and I were working on numerous other programs, events, and material preparation

during the progressing of this project which made this project extremely challenging. I will discuss the

benchmark periods listed in Form F of my final project proposal which was submitted earlier this semester.

Date: 9/5/2014 – 9/10/2014 Project Benchmark First Prototypes Created:

By the second week working with Red Rock International

it was agreed that one of my jobs would be to create a buggy, and

a Balance bomb for an adventure race in the middle east. For this

project I will describe all of the work and time put into the project

up to the large event taking place in Qatar. Even though my focus

for this project is on the buggy it is a small part of what needed to

be done by the time I leave for Qatar on the October 13th.

The project started off the first full work week on Monday

September 8th. I set out with another intern who was helping me

with acquiring materials and other tasks that needed to be done

for crafting the buggy. We set off to different hardware, lumber,

and plumbing stores to acquire all the materials needed to build

the prototypes. There are drastic differences between materials sold in the UK compared to the USA so

acquiring materials went slow and my ideas for materials were not available so adaptation to the available

materials was required. Eventually I found a solid design to work with. We created the first prototype in

about 5 days with little roadblocks but the problem with the design is that it is not sufficient for the bolting the

kit together using wing nuts bolts and washers. The challenge now is to recreate the design so that

participants can build it without the use of tools. Therefore on

the right was the first prototype to be built. Because of the

needed change in the design we needed to brainstorm about how

it might be made better. I talked with my fellow employees and

we decided on some needed changes so the buggy can be

replicated and consistent for the 32 teams in the race.

On top of creating the buggy which was priority for the

event I also lead in creating a balance bomb. At first some ideas

were brought forth by the other employees but eventually we

came up with a design that worked and was efficient for the

challenge race. The bomb consisted of a self-contained Mentos

in a T split PVC piping connected to a large Diet Coke. There were

safety’s at each end of the T split holding the Mentos in place.

When the participants were given the bomb the safety wires were

pulled and the bomb became active. If the bomb was shaken to much the Mentos would fall into the diet

coke and it would react and send soda out of the holes on the top of the T split. We successfully created a

model of the balance bomb but it needed some fine-tuning for the upcoming event.

Date: 9/10/2014 – 9/26/2014 Project Benchmark Final Prototypes Created: Affectively creating a final buggy amongst doing other

tasks during this time was challenging but eventually I was

successful in the creation of a final buggy prototype. This process

took almost a week of time due to the detail needed to make all

the measurements for the holes and the lengths of the wood

identical to themselves. This concept allowed the use of no tools

or any other material other than what was provided to build the

buggy. In Qatar we will have to make 32 of the models shown.

The picture on the next page shows all of the kit needed to create

the buggy shown. Notice in the picture that all the parts are

made identical to the given group of items so that when we

create 32 of these kits an assembly line will run to cut all the

spares, boards, and triangle braces needed to produce the kits.

The two photographs shown of the final buggy project on the

previous page were used to create a rough instruction manual

sent off to a professional to produce the final draft of instructions

for the MOQP event in Qatar. I wanted to create the final

instructions for this event but because of the lack of knowledge

with illustrator my instructions were sent off to a freelance artist

who has the graphic experience needed. I will submit the

instruction manual I created in an email for this project.

Fortunately my instruction manual will be used for the half day

event for a company called Commercial Bank of Qatar in the

middle of October. This will be a good trial run for me to see how

the build goes with the participants.

With the final buggy prototype created I focused my eyes on

a smaller but important creation the balance bomb. A better

model needed to be created from the first prototype. WE created

a final model of the balance bomb and were forced to ship all the

piping and parts to Qatar because of the lack of materials

available in the Country. The reason for this is that the PVC pipes

and parts are different in Qatar form the UK. As you notice on the

right it is a simple design and it does the job for what we needed

to do which is throw soda all over the participants.

Date: 9/26/2014 – 10/25/2014 Project Benchmark Commercial Bank Event: Before all the setting off for Qatar all the necessary

preparation needed to take place. I was due to set off on Monday

October 13th for Qatar for a total of 5 weeks. The preparation

consisted of recording all the angles, cuts and hole locations of all the components of the buggy so that when

we all arrived in Qatar there would be clear directions on how to create all of the buggy kit materials. Once I

arrived in Qatar the work days greatly increased and my coworkers and I were working 13 hour days equaling

about 65 hour weeks. One of the greatest challenges in Qatar was acquiring all the materials needed to create

the buggy. In total the amount of money spent was over 15,000 Riyal equaling about 2,600 British sterling

pounds. The reason for this was power tools were purchased to create all the components of the 32 buggies.

Soon the event for Commercial Bank came and it went well. I created a brief explaining the process and need

for the participants build and use the buggy for the training course. For the event Commercial Bank of Qatar

employees were split into three groups for the leadership training course. My group was called the

transportation unit which used the buggy to

transport clients around a given area for my part

of the challenge. They had to build the buggy

do 9 laps around this track and dismantle the

buggy to complete the challenge. All the

necessary details were provided in the manual

and briefs for the clients to succeed. This event

was the perfect opportunity to weed out any

roadblocks with the buggy building phase.

There were a couple issues but they were

quickly resolved and it helped in the process of

preparing the final instructions for the MOQP

event. At this point only one buggy kit was made and 31 kits

still needed to be created for the upcoming event in

November.

Date: 10/25/2014 – 11/14/2014 Project Benchmark Create Project Builds: During this period other project demands and

responsibilities increased during the preparation of the large

MOQP event at Fuwairit beach. After the Commercial Bank

training event there was a great need to prepare materials for

the EBDA event discussed in the reports I submitted. During

this period of time the buggy preparation was mixed with the

work that needed to be completed for the EBDA event.

During this period the final instruction manual for the buggy

was completed and the document was one page with no

words just colors and numbers to describe the instructions. This was done to reduce confusion for the

participants who spoke and read in different languages. During this time my residence was just outside Doha

Qatar. My staff and I were working day in and out on all the components needed for the large events and I

was responsible for the duplication and overall creation of the 32 buggies needed for the MOQP event. In

total for wood components cut and

sanded which included the blocks,

triangle brackets, long supports

horizontal perpendicular supports, carrier

supports, plywood, and axel braces for 32

teams in the event it amounted to 520

pieces of lumber. In total 32 large blue

barrels were acquired and cleaned, 32

axel pipes which were cut and filed, and

the total amount of washers wing nuts

and bolts were acquired for building the

buggy which was 2,624 hardware pieces. We had to wait weeks to acquire all the necessary materials needed

for this build because of the lack of hardware in Qatar. In the end this shows just how big this event really

was. As the event became closer to the start date we ended up moving all the equipment and building

materials to the site which is pointed to on the map. This required two large 6 ton trucks and I drove with the

truck drivers to site to unload the materials. The map shown is a picture of the northern tip of Qatar and the

arrow points to the camp location of Fuwairit beach. The water surrounding the site is the Persian gulf. This

water is extremely warm and salty ocean

due to the hot dry climate of Qatar. The

couple days leading up to the event

were some of the toughest I have

worked with Red Rock. The picture on

the right shows how much dust

accumulated during the work done on

site. The marshals showed up the day

before the event which was on a Friday.

That Friday night we got all the available

hands together and built all 32 buggies.

This took a total of 3 hours and without

the marshals help the job would not have been completed. The reason we did this was to make sure all the

holes lined up with the bolts and boards provided assuring the buggy kits are ready for the event. We set

them aside and planned to move the buggy’s to the building location the following morning.

Date: 11/15/2014 – 11/16/2014 Project Benchmark Maersk Oil Event:

The day of the big event has finally come and we all woke up bofore the sunrise at 5 am. Everyone got

together for a morning meeting and and we shared some coffee and discussed the different projects needed

to be completed and prepared for the day.

Once the meeting was over I was put in

charge of setting up the buggies at the

build area. This task is not as easy at it

seems because the build area is more than

50 meters wide by one hundred meters

long. I gathered all the marshals and Red

Rock staff and we pulled all the buggies to

the build location for the event. There we

dismantled them in place and I informed

some marshals on how to line up the

buggiys in a clear and organized fashion.

This was done to ensure that their were no

missing parts for any of the buggy kits. I

checked and rechecked to see if there were

any missing parts because of the vast

amount of parts needed for the stage area.

In total over 180 people would be in this

single area during the stage and I breifed

the marshals on thiere responsibilities in

order to keep the area running in a safe and

smooth fashion. Once the buggies were built they were inspected by marshals who I briefed and istructed

about all the components of the buggy. My preporation for this day was extensive. If things went wrong with

the buggy biuld or inspection areas it could be catastrophic to the integrity of the event. After this stage the

director of Redrock Nick Ashley said that this was smoothest leadership training build that he had every seen

for any of his events that he had facilitated in the last ten years. He was thorouly impressed by how organized

I was with the stage and on how smoothly the building and inspection areas went for the participants.

Conclusion:

I have to say that working with Red Rock International has been one of the hardest but most rewarding

opportunities of my life. Being able to travel and see the world while providing high quality leadership training

courses has been a great blessing to me and it has shown me how far I can truly push myself mentaly and

physically. I look forward the the work I still have coming up in the month of January and hope to work with

an organization like this in the future.