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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.