On Tuesday 8/9, we played a name game in class so that we could all get familiar with each others names. Luckily i was at the begining of the line so there was not a lot of names i had to remember.
On Wednesday 8/10, we were assigned to groups and were given a challange that we will slowly complete over the span of 1 and a half weeks. In the challange we will build a bridge out of dry spaghetti that will hold a jug of water.
On Thursday 8/11, we continued to work on our wednesday challange settleing on a bridge design and starting to work on building it. During the building there was a lot of wind and our project was knocked back a few times.
On Friday 8/12, we learned how to program a website that Mr. Neat made for us and started to write our journal in code on the website. A lot of had trouble with all the typing but I think I did good.
Today, Monday 8/15, Mr. Neat let us continue to write in our websites and fill them up some more about what we had done the previous days. A classmate named Edgar used Mr. Neat's computer to show us how to start making our website more intresting by showing us more tags.
Today, Tuesday 8/16, I started working on my webpage again even though my computer had a minor error and wouldn't work. Our classmate Edgar was working on Mr. Neat's computer again and showed us how to use the bold tag, next line tag and center tag in our websites.
Today, Wednesday 8/17, We continued to work on our Wednesday challange where we discovered our noodles were bent because we had used too much glue on them. We decided to create a bunch of peices to our bridge incase some more end up breaking as they dry.
Today, Thursday 8/18, We continued to work on our websites and typed into them everything we had done yesterday. Some of us were individually pulled to a table in the back by Jacob to learn how to make our websites go "live" and let people see them.
Today, Friday 8/19, We worked on the bridge for the wednesday challenge until there was nothing left for us to do but wait for the bridge to dry. After that one of our members got his computer to work on his website, I didn't get my computer because one of the veterans needed to use it and we share the same computer.
Today, Monday 8/22, we worked more on our websites adding into them what happened friday and today. We all got to learn what sketch up is and practice using parts of it for future practice because we need to use a picture of our wednesday projects put into the website.
Today, Tuesday 8/23, we were all taught how to change the skeleton of a picture we had exported into a real one with color and the full shape. We also put the skeleton version and a complete version of the picture into the website as seen below this text scince they are requiered.
Today, Wednesday 8/24, We continued to keep on working with our bridge and none of it dried incorrectly which was good because that means it didn't bend and we could us it. The bridge is close to finishing and will be done soon but it almost broke apart as we were putting it away thanks to a breeze.
Today, Thursday 8/25, Mr. Neat had the few kids who had met with Jacob before make their websites offically go live and told them how to edit it and send it back to the cloud. I continued to fill into my website some more about what we are doing today and about what we had done yesterday. I also put in a link to my challenge.
Spaghetti Bridge Wednesday Challange
Today, Friday 8/26, Dr. Neat brought in a man named Mr. Wilton who had won a few prizes thanks to what he has done in the movie industry and thi is his website Mr. Wilton's website. We lso talked a lot about the JPL invention challange including possible frames for it.
Today, Monday 8/29, We are working on our computers in class again adding in everything we remember until everyone has officially gone live or has a dead website that they can only access here. One classmate named Kirk went around the class, person by person helping evryone by giving them their passwords to sign in and go live.
Today, Wednesday 9/7, We got into random groups and were assigned a wednesday challange. My group cosisted of Me Max and Justin and the question we had to answer was how could we make a computer tell the difference between a cat and a dog.
Dog or Cat Wednesday Challange
Today, Thursday 9/8, We all started to finish our websites by making sure we have all the requirements to pass. This weekend grades are due and the website is at least half of it.
Today, Friday 9/9, Mr. Wilton came in and gave advice to the veterans about the JPL challange and their ideas so far. The veterans also showed us all of the ideas they disposed of includeing why they did and the ones they kept in includeing why they did.
Today, Monday 9/12, We were told that the grades have been entered over the weekend and that in a few days we will be able to veiw the grades on his website. We also went on sketch up and made a small city with some of the tools so that we could learn.
Today, Tuesday 9/13, We worked on our computers some more and edited our websites until Mr. Neat split up the class in two and gave us a type of test that we would complete online using our emails. We went into a computer room with Mr. Miller and gave him our emails to use so that we could take the safty test later.
Today, Wednesday 9/14, We got another wednesday challenge that i was excited about because we had to cut and sand wooden blocks to exactly two inches. My group had me, Krish, Lucas and Alvin who was our veteran for the challenge and he showed us around.
Today, Thursday 9/15, We got to continue cutting blocks at least until we finished our second one which we used the same techniuqe for as the first. The second block was better than the first but was still not two inches so we will just have to try harder on the third block.
Wooden Block Wednesday Challange
Today, Friday 9/16, The veterans showed us their progress and ideas for a funnel that they could use in the JPL project to direct the water. All the veterans had 30 minutes to create random designs that they could use to move water from one cup to another
Today, Monday 9/19, We all had to get a ruler and three jenga blocks then measure the blocks to find their dimensions. We then had to build a structure using the three blocks in real life and take a picture of it then create the picture of jenga blocks in sketch up and take a screenshot.
Today, Tuesday 9/20, A lady from a group called skillify came in and talked to all of us about making good first impressions with important people. She also told us about an offer their group was doing which allowed us to practice talking one on one with people of important status.
Today, Wednesday 9/21, Our Wednesday challange today involved a lot of team work which was the one thing my team did not have and the only thing we needed. During the challange we had a lot of screw ups but came out on top as the winners of the challange which was hard because there was at least 13 of us.
Marble Tubes Wednesday Challange
Today, Thursday 9/22, One of our classmates showed us how to put youtube videos on our websites then kirk showed an easier way to do it. We were also told that our websites would be checked over the weekend and showed us all of the requirements that we needed to have and i found that i need to work more.
Today, Friday 9/23, Mr. Wilton came in to evaluate the progress of the invention challange, make sure that the veterans are headed in the right direction and to see what any flaws are so that he can give advice. The veterans have worked a lot on their projects for the JPL challange and although when they started talking they were sarcastic, their ideas were good and Mr. Wilton helped even gave them new ideas.
Today, Monday 9/26, Mr. Neat got on a laptop and showed all of us our grades for our websites and for our projects which were pretty bad. He also told us that the next quarter's grades will replace our last grades as long as they are better but if they are worse he will average them and that would be our semester grades.
Today, Tuesday 9/27, Mr. Neat showed us a video of some man describing the 2016 spacex rocket explosion and telling us about what happened while we debated whether or not NASA was better. We also got to work some more on our websites which was helpful because i needed to upload a bunch of pictures for challanges and upload everything I typed into my website
Today, Wednesday 9/28, We were all assigned a semester final as a wednesday challange that will last a week or two, will be similar to the spaghetti bridge and were split into groups of roughly four. My group and I are focusing on what material to make it out of and have two options Wood blocks and aluminum blocks.
Arch Bridge Rules
Today, Thursday 9/29, we worked on our semester challange some more and choose to use wood instead of aluminum blocks and we looked up some designs for real life arch bridges to get some ideas. We were also told that the quarter is almost over which was surprising because it seems like not even half a month has passed since we started.
Today, Friday 9/30, Mr. Wilton came in and talked some more about the JPL challange along with giving ideas about possible fixes to the problems. The veterans showed their current progress on their designs and took advice from Dr. Neat, Mr. Wilton and Mr. Miller about what they should do or fix and what could possibly make the challange a lot easier.
Today, Monday 10/3, Our group got together and figured out the measurerments and we also started doing the sketch up. We were told that the project is due in a few days and we should all hurry considering that no one has had a design approved yet and we were short a member.
Today, Tuesday 10/4, Mr. Neat showed all of us a video of a technical institute and the robot that they were creating that could right itself after it was pushed down or messed with. Once again our group got together and we foucused on our challange by finishing the sketch up and finding the dimensions and spans.
Today, Thursday 10/6, Our teammate was back and able to help us while our other teamate cut the wooden blocks that we were using for the bridge. We also had to test the bridge today so we need the blocks to be right the first time without a lot of reties.
Today, Friday 10/7, Mr. Wilton came in again because it was friday and evaluated the veterans work which he seemed happy about thanks to all their changes and fixesto the designs. The veterans showed all their progress and everything seemed to be going well because they had a few problems before which they figured out and fixed.
Today, Monday 10/10, Alex, Tyler, Melik, Jhonathan and me all whent to the shop with Mr. Miller and took the shop safety test because we had not done it before. After taking the test Mr. Miller took us to explore the rest of the shop and we watched one of the veterans cut a peice of wood with the newest saw they got.
Today, Wednesday 10/12, we got into groups and were assigned a wensday challenge to complete this week. The challange was to build a house of cards and trying to be the tallest while still being succsessful and not letting it fall.
House of Cards Wensday Challenge
Today, Monday 10/17, We were told to create a scale model of a pencil in sketch up using everything that we have learned so far and all the tools we know. I thought my pencil was good and quite accurrate until one of the veterans named Kelvin came in and showed us his pencil which was amazing and found out why he is known as sketch up god.
Today, Thursday 10/20, i had to join a group for the wednesday challange that we were given yesterday since i was absent and i choose nicolas along with alex to do the project. Halfway through the project we realized no one made a group and that we could not particapate in the challange but we did it for fun. 90 Degree Straw Angle Wednesday Challenge
Today, Tuesday 10/25, Everyone had to complete their wednesday challenge from last week and post it live. After we posted the last wednesday challange form we would get the next sketch up early.
Today, Wednesday 10/26, We were assigned another wednesday challange and Dr. Neat said it would be hollowen themed whiched sounded fun. The challange for this wednesday is finding out how many candy corns will fit on a peice of paper using 10 candy corns which are easiy breakable.
Candy Corn Wednesday Challenge
Today, Thursday 10/27, Everyone who had made their previous sketch ups including me were given a 2 by 4 lego block to create a sketch up of. As i was making the lego block i got some insparation from Nicolas and almost completely copied him but at least i learned a few new tools and what to do with them.
Today, Wednesday 11/2, We had another wednesday challange and this one was going to be cooperative with other teams by creating their design while they make ours. We had to make an e and the team who designed it were evil because it was a huge e while ours was small and easy so at least we would get points for designing an e.
Design and Build an E Wednesday Challenge
Today, Thursday 11/3, We continued to build the E today and realized that it was huge so we expected to fail and just hoped the other team would create our E properly. When the day ended all that we had created was one side to the E when we still needed the inside along with everything else at least the other team finished.
Today, Friday 11/4, I was not here because i was sick but i am sure that Mr. Wilton came in and judged the veterans along with their projects and progress. I heard that they got lots of useful information and that they made more progress than before.
Today, Monday 11/7, I asked my classmates what happened while i was gone and as usual Mr. Wilton came in to judge the veterans and approve of their work so far along with their progress.
Today, Tuesday 11/8, Dr. Neat showed us how to calculate our grades for the websites and where to go to see them and most grades along with mine were pretty bad.
Ratio of Weights Wednesday Challenge
Today, Tuesday 11/15, Dr. Neat gave us the whole day to work on our bridge reports with our teamates but told us to work on websites if we still needed to and many people did. I had to work on my website alot and needed the time to get everything up to date so this was definitely a good time.
Today, Wedesday 11/16, we were put in groups and given another wednesday challange which came with metal parts for every team and the choice of adhesive. The goal of the challange is to hold the most weight with the two metal parts and our choice of only one adhesive.
Weight Lifting With Metal Wednesday Challenge
Today, Thursday 11/17, Mr. Miller came in and talked to us about the wednesday challange that we did yesterday and told us that the super glue is way stronger than we all thought and would have been extremely hard to break apart from the two metal peices. Because the super glue was extremely strong, we would not do the challange again since basicaly everyone was using it.
Today (forgot the date)
We were given one last challange to complete which will last the rest of the semester and will take up all of our time which means that we can't really upload anymore or at least i'm choseing not to upload anymore since I need to focus and Dr. Neat said that the websites won't be graded. This wil be me last entry until I get back in second semester, until then i'll be failling a challange.