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Weekly Blog Post - (1|23|17 - 1|29|17)

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Summary: During this week, I helped my team hot glue our solar panels as well as hot glue the LED lights for conserving electricity. Another thing that I did was hot glue the solar panel paper to the actual cardboard. I also made the bedspreads for our beds and painted our roof as you can see above. EDP - Communicate Final Design Image Links : IMG_1018.JPG  &  IMG_1019.JPG    Photo Editing Link: PicMonkey Collage

Weekly Blog Post (01|09|17 - 01|15|17) - Eco-friendly House

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Summary: During this week we worked on our green aspects (green write up) for our new project, the Eco-friendly House project. My green aspect was electricity use and so I did my research on what it was and how electricity was transported. I also worked on my floor plan and after I finish this blog post, I will draw out our final floor plan (to scale) on our professional floor plan paper which is on a professional table. EDP  —  Generate Possible Solutions:  I generated possible solutions when I started sketching out my own floor plan. Everyone  —  who's anyone  —  in my team had to sketch out their own floor plan and then we would  — professionally  —  choose the floor plan above and after this blog post is finished, we will put our professionally chosen floor plan onto the professional floor plan paper  which is professional enough now that I've used the word professional to describe it. Image Link: Professional I...

Weekly Engineering Blog (1|02|17 - 1|08|17) - Thermos Challenge

Summary: During this week, I worked on the Eco-House project where we had to do a "Green Write-Up" which is where we have to do one of the four green aspects, such as, electricity use, heating & cooling, sustainable construction, and water use. My green aspect is electricity use. EDP:  Define the problem - background research. The green aspect write up is showing our background research knowledge. Link:  ECO-HOUSE PROJECT - ELECTRICITY USE