Train

Arch. project

This is my Cad sketch of a cradle. The circle is where the baby is going to sleep at the head of the cradle. The bottom shape is to make the cradle rock back and forth.

Design activity

Pen
Design elements: straight line,shape of thin cylinder
Principles:unequal use of black and white, pattern

Eraser

Elements:pink color, form like a parellogram

Principles: equal balance of lines, emphasis on equality

 Gatorade bottle
Elements:curved lines, orange lid thats contrasts rest of bottle
Principles: equal porportion

minecraft

I built a building with organic blocks based on Frank Lloyd Wright's works. The block on the side is from Coop Himmelblau. 

3.1.6

Ted Challenge

1. The Ted organization is about technology, entertaniment, and design.
2.The purpose is to spread ideas. The fuctionality of the website makes it easy to spread ideas because there are different types of vidoes.
3. As engineers, the design videos most appeal to us.
4. Videos that seem interesting are Charles Leadbeater on innovation, Chip Kidd on designing books, and Daniel Schnitzer: Inventing is the easy part.

5.  Some key issues are:

• The people of Haiti spend a lot of money on lightbulbs
• solar LED lightbulbs could change the haitian's lives if they could have access to them
• two types of access are physical and finacial
• Haitians don't have much physical and finical access
• Schnitzer said inventing is easy, getting the inventions to people who need them is harder

6. I could get involved in making a company that sends inventions to people who need them. I would need experence in manging a company.

Extra Credit

My dad and I went to the Science and Engineering expo on March 24 at Petco Park. We went to different booths and talked a little bit about careers with scientists and engineers. We talked with two biologists about their jobs and what degrees they got. We saw many cool demonstrations.

This was a demo of how proteins in my body.

This was a cool flight simulator that I did.

This board explained how polymers work and how they make a basketball bounce.

In this picture I made a bouncy substance out of glue and Borax.

Sapphire Energy is a company that turns algae, carbon dioxide, and sunlight into renewable fuel. The company had a booth at the fair. The company uses algae because it's a renewable energy source and is commonly found in ponds that get a lot of sunlight. The picture above is algae that the company uses.

Egg drop

 There is a total of 12 achivements.

Create a sketch of one possible solution. Include labels.


-Create a sketch of another possible solution. Include labels.-You hit the butcher paper!


-You hit inside the third ring!

-You hit inside the second ring!

-You hit inside the first ring!

-You hit the Bullseye!

-Create a sketch of a third possible solution. Include labels.
-Your egg didn't break in any way! (awarded three times)


-Your egg didn't break in any way! (awarded three times)

-Your egg didn't break in any way! (awarded three times)





-Your materials weigh less than 500 grams
-Your solution takes more than 2 seconds to hit the target!

Khan Academy

This is a good video because this is what we are studying in chemistry and we have a test soon. A thing that I don't like is that we can't ask personal questions to the teacher.

Inventor

Glider Challenge

1. The activity was building a miniture plane with a propeller. I worked with Ezquiel and Daniel. A definite challenge toward the end was the plane breaking a couple of times when we did practice runs.

2. I couldn't get any photos of the plane under construction.

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4. We tested our plane by doing practice flights out in the quad. We took turns flying it to see how well it did. 

5.Our aircraft flew a couple of feet and didn't win any awards.

6. Three steps in the design process that we used are making a model where we suceeded in building the plane. We tested the plane where it broke a couple of times unfortunately. On this blog, I am communicating the process and results.

Moneyball

1.The Moneyball approach is looking for valuable players for little money. The approach is more of a science than an art as Beane looked at On-base percentage.
2.(Hits + Walks + Hit by Pitch) / (At Bats + Walks + Hit by Pitch + Sacrifice Flies)
3.Design is a plan for doing or constructing something.
4.In the scene where Beane and the scouts were talking about getting more players, they both were identifying the problem and brainstorming. Beane created the solution by signing new players.
5. Leadership is when somebody leads a group through a problem.
The three aspects of leadership are direction, alignment, and commitment.
6. Billy Beane used direction to get the scouts back on the identifying the problem instead of jumping to brainstorming. Another example is when Beane kept with the moneyball approach when the team was losing. A third example is when Beane was telling Michael Brand how to tell players they've been cut efficently.
7. The A's record at the start of the winning streak was 68-51.
8. The ratio simplfies to a .57 winning percentage.
9. The A's won 20 games in a row.
10.The odds of winning 20 games in a row would be .57 to the twenthy power which equals .000013.
11.I think that the A's got lucky in winning 20 games in a row because it isn't something that happens every day.
12.Billy Beane didn't strictly apply the science of moneyball. He stepped out of the approach when he traded Jeremy Giambi who was a moneyball player.

cube inventor

CAD drawings

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Making stuff

Making stuff stronger: How can kepler stop a bullet? Kepler is made up of small strong bonds of atoms that absorb the shock of a bullet. This is an important question because some things are made stronger by using kepler.
Making stuff smaller: How does transistors make things smaller? Smaller transistors make smaller things. It's important because it explains how some things get smaller.
Making stuff cleaner: Why are plants so important to the environment? Plants breathe out oxygen which we need to breathe. This is important because we need plants to survive.
Making stuff smarter: How did shark skin inspire doctors with an idea?  Doctors are beginning to use sharklet a substance that eliminates anti-biotic resistant bacteria. It's important because those bacteria don't get killed when the patients use anti-biotics.