Adv Engineering

Summary:  During this week, I drew the group sketches and added the measurements for the second one that I drew. I also made the bathroom sketch for our client so they could have a reference of what we want them to build. We're going to be building a garden prototype in the same general area where the old garden was (not in actual physical form, but as a miniature version of the actual thing).     EDP: MAKE AND TEST A MODEL I am building a prototype using clay, toothpicks, popsicle sticks, and cardboard.  Image Link: Two melons were talking. The first one says, "Let's get married!" and the other one says, "No! We canteloupe!"  

Summary:  During this week, I added the final paper mache layers and then tested it out with my team. I also created and worked on our IGNITE presentation where we will confirm our results as well as discuss the pros and cons of our location and our base.    EDP: COMMUNICATE FINAL DESIGN I communicated our team's final design when we finished building our prototype and tested it out with the bowling ball being the asteroid (although by all technical means, the people of Alabraska are already dead because we had ten days to come up with a solution, and we took way longer than that). I did this by going up to the board which had a table and then putting our damage scale which was a 1.5 (very low - yay!). Image Link: Why should a bowling alley be quiet? So you can hear a pin drop!  

Summary:  During this week, I put paper mache all over our box to represent our cavern (to make the glue, just put one part flour and one part water). I covered our box in saran wrap and Ziploc bags (we didn't have saran wrap at first) before dipping the torn up newspaper and then putting it on top of our box.  EDP: GENERATE POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS I generated possible solutions when our group didn't have saran wrap and so I improvised by tearing apart some Ziploc bags (like a psycho, I might add) and then plastering them onto the box with some tape.  Image Link: Ziploc Bags