Adv Engineering

Summary:  During this week, I helped my team on our build by building our mounds of clay. Then I painted them and put in toothpicks (the sandwich kind - the ones with the pretty plastic thing on them) to represent strawberries, celery, carrots, and other fruits and vegetables that are part of our garden model.     EDP: MAKE AND TEST A MODEL I am building a prototype using clay, toothpicks, popsicle sticks, and cardboard.  Image Link: What's the fruitiest subject? History, because it's full of dates.  

Summary: Over the course of our EOY project, I helped my team with our build for the garden and begun our document for our interior furnishings. I also helped my team with our rough draft for our blueprint.  Backward-Looking: How much did you know about the subject before we started?  I knew nothing about the project or rather, the subject of an urban village. I recognized the village part, but I didn't understand the "urban" part of the two words.  Inward-Looking:  What does this piece tell you about yourself and how you learn? This piece tells me that I digest more through visual learning such as drawing out solutions or writing out problems. This piece also tells me that I don't need to make  3-D models to see the whole picture.  Outward-Looking: What grade would you give it and why?  The grade that I would give this project is an A- because we worked very hard on it and although it deserves at least 10 points for style, it was rather u...

Summary:  During this week, I helped my team on our build by building our mounds of clay. Then I painted them and put in toothpicks (the sandwich kind - the ones with the pretty plastic thing on them) to represent strawberries, celery, carrots, and other fruits and vegetables that are part of our garden model.     EDP: MAKE AND TEST A MODEL I am building a prototype using clay, toothpicks, popsicle sticks, and cardboard.  Image Link: What's the fruitiest subject? History, because it's full of dates.  

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  

Summary: During this week, I had to come up with possible cavern locations. Then I had to present along with my group and chose our cavern at the coordinates of N6, N9, P6, P9.  "On the general geology map of Alabraska, there is a section at the coordinates N6, N9, P6, P9. This was our cavern location because it was close to water, so the people didn't have to worry about dehydration or hunger because where there is water, there is usually some sort of life, whether it be vegetation or animals (sometimes the animals are inedible). We also chose this because it quite far from the fault line, so really the worst that could happen was that if there was an earthquake, we'd be so far underground that we would still feel it, but it wouldn't be strong enough to kill anyone - really the worst that could happen is some of the rock would chip off, but not all of it." EDP: GENERATE POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS I generated possible solutions when our group and I cho...