PWR tech
Part A
For research we didn’t really do anything we looked up a few videos to see how good people where at it and we also got some ideas from it but not to many because they where very advanced we where kind of just watching for fun. For design we first made a little drawing of what we wanted it to look like we then started to build it but kinda just ditched the drawing because Eric just likes to do trial and error.
For our materials we used hot wheels tracks a lot of cardboard marble race tracks we also used some wood to make some support for the cardboard. For construction we used x-acto knifes hot glue pencils and drills. When constructing the project we put it on a big cardboard pice and cut out rectangular shapes but we didn’t cut all the way to the top we stopped about 3 inches away from the top so the rectangles could pull out and become legs so the cardboard could stand up on its own. We made the project as like a side to side affect if that makes sense. There where a lot of mess ups that we had to fix but eventually everything worked out.
Part B
Some things that I learned from this project where that cutting through cardboard is actually pretty hard even with and X-Acto knife. I also learned that you can’t just plan something and it’s gonna work you have to put a lot of effort in and try a lot of new things, I thought it was going to be really easy and be done in like a day but it actually took a lot of effort. I learned that when you want something to work it doesn’t and then when you accidentally knock your project then that’s when it divides to work. I realized that actually putting everything together and using your brain to figure out how to make it work is actually a lot harder than it looks ex. Trying to make a pulley out of string and nails is really hard but it worked in the end
Part C
I think I should get a c+ or B because everyday I came in even though I was tired I still help and fixed things a lot of things when they weren’t working but I did miss some days but other than that I think I worked pretty hard I was on my phone some times but not when we where trying to fix things I was listening to Eric to figure out what he was trying to make which was really hard cuz his brain works some different type of way but we figured out what we where doing I listened to alivias and Eric’s ideas and they listened to mine and we worked it out the first few days where us making the back bored and me Eric and alivia had good ideas on how to stand it up and we kinda put all our ideas into one big one. So I think I deserve an B or C+ because I think I worked really hard but I can’t lie Eric did do a lot of the work like he had a lot of the ideas but I did help him glue and make things stand up and me and alivia both had really good ideas. I think Eric definitely deserves an A+++ and alivia deserves a C or C+ because she was on her phone a lot but she did put in a lot of effort