TEAM X Status Report #3

The hardest part of this project was the decision on the parachute because we decided to start with a parachute that is joined at the center from all four corners and that did not get enough air resistance so then we decided to try a parachute connected on two sides but that was not good enough to so in the end we went with a four cornered parachute. My predictions for my our lander is that it will survive the two drops but i am a bit nervous about the rooftop drop.

TEAM X Status Report - Day 2

Our lander has a parachute at the top and a structure made of straws, that is adjustable to the size of the egg and is held together by strings, because string are cheaper that tape in our project. Our lander has a lot to do with air resistance because of our parachute. Our parachute has a large enough surface area to create some air resistance to slow down our egg so that there will be less shock from the landing impact. What has gone well in our project is the cost of our supplies, we monitor closely what we were buying to make sure we do not go higher the budget and really use our supplies to their full capacity, but we have been going through some trouble with our data collecting. We have not yet collected all of our data and we hope to be able to finish it as soon as possible. We have learned a lot from our testing specifically that the way air enters your parachute matters a lot, in the beginning we were planning on going with a more closed parachute design and through further testing we found out that an open design works far better for greater air resistance.

We spent most of our time working on our rough drafts for the coloring book we worked really hard to try and crate out of the box funny ideas and to tell you the truth it was not easy to come up with new ideas. After we finished with that we made a calendar to organized what we would do and when we would do things. We decided that we are gonna make our pages digital using my mothers large iPad and apple pen. And we also started to make our website using Wix, we got as far as the front page and started the image section. When we are done with those steps we are planning on making a copy for the library. And in the end we are going to post all of the pages on our website for our viewers to print out and complete. Hopefully it will work out

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Project X Blog Post #2

We spent most of our time working on our rough drafts for the coloring book we worked really hard to try and crate out of the box funny ideas and to tell you the truth it was not easy to come up with new ideas. After we finished with that we made a calendar to organized what we would do and when we would do things. We decided that we are gonna make our pages digital using my mothers large iPad and apple pen. And we also started to make our website using Wix, we got as far as the front page and started the image section. When we are done with those steps we are planning on making a copy for the library. And in the end we are going to post all of the pages on our website for our viewers to print out and complete. Hopefully it will work out

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Team X Blog Post #1

I am doing an egg drop project with Kaylin and Lavinia and we have a bunch of great ideas for our project. The main ideas are to have a medium sized parachute and a sort of container for our egg to not move around, then we are planning on putting downward facing straws to absorb the shock from our land. We have already accomplished our sketch for the lander and we got some of our supplies that we already started putting together to try and experiment what would work the best on how to stick things on other things.

I think one of the biggest challenges that we will face is finance because most of the supplies cost a lot and we need a really good design which at a reasonable spending. I am a little bit nervous for our egg containment contraption because I am afraid it might not be sturdy enough to absorb the shock and save the egg but I think we will eventually find a way make it strong enough.

Project X

This year I saw that there was an unfamiliar class in my scheduled Media Literacy. I had no idea what this class was and I never heard of it in my whole life so I went in the class not knowing what to expect and in my head I imagined that it would be some kind of class that did some kind of reading or something like that but it was very different. So my teacher Mr Mongardi started talking about the class but not exactly saying what we are actually doing, almost like a surprise. And the class came to a point where he asked us to write some brainstorm ideas of some projects that we would like to do so we did exactly that, though I admit some of the ideas were kinda silly but some others were quite good. And I wasn't exactly sure why we were writing down ideas then Mr Mongardi said that we are gonna do a project and think of something that could benefit our society in a way.