Science Video 2

1st Mini-Culmination

So today in class we decided on what jobs everyone was going to get. I was the Phobos Drop. I didn't get that far, but what I did get done, was making four holes on the bottom side of my parachute, then, I used hole reinforces so that the holes I made wouldn't rip when I tied the string to it. Next, I put four more holes on the top of my parachute, and hole reinforces on them too, so that when in my next class, I don't rip the parachute when I tie more string on. I'm planning to make bi-parachute.

Science Video 1

Launching to the Moon Lab

On Friday, I did launching to the moon with Alice and Taryn. At first, we put the tube on the string, and then we taped the ping pong ball on to it. We then taped the 1st balloon on the it. It wasn't that successful, because it didn't go that far, probably about 2 inches off the ground. So, we took the tape off, so we could blow the balloon up more, and add another one too it, but the balloon popped. We added two more objects to the tube (the two red Lego sticks) so it would be heavier, and so we wouldn't have to launch that many rockets. Just when I was going to blow the 2nd balloon up, (the 1st for that round, we only had 2 balloons total) I was called to the front desk for a soccer game, so I didn't get to finish the lab. I think that if we had two balloons to tape to the tube, then the tube would go up more, because more air would be pushing it upward. I don't know if adding more weight to the tube would work or not, but I think it would, because then the tube would be a little heavier, and we would make less trips, and it is most usually easier to throw a tennis ball in the air than a feather.

Africa Map Scores

These were my scores for the Africa Map test 2.

Lego Robotics- Challenge 2 Video

Lego Robotics- Challenge 2

Today, my lab partner was Louisa. We had to design a program that had our robot follow a black line. It was really hard at first, becasue we didn't know how to start it, but then, we asked Bert for help, and he showed us. Then, We tried to make it go, but our first program didn't work, so, we tried a new order of directions. We kept switching around the order, until we could get the robot to do what we wanted the robot to do. Our sequence is at left.