Damon
Science 9
Solution Post
DEFINE:
To start off with this project we talked to someone who lives in Tanzania and his name is Saul Mwame. We are talking to Saul Mwame because we are trying to gather information to create some sort of device or object to help his companies grow or in whatever way that group decides on an idea. I felt that Saul is a very outgoing person and really has a passion for what he does and wont give up on his dreams. I liked learning about how other countries create businesses and run them differently. My groups plan to try to create a device for Saul Mwame is to create a device that creates sound loudly and either alerts the beekeepers or scares the animals away with this loud annoying sound and it goes off when the microbit senses movement by it being shaken or be moved.
DISCOVER:
Our group looked at our resources available to see what we could to with them and access what we could build and create. We didn’t research much actually but when we did it came in handy. While we were looking at our resources available we accessed what we knew and what we could do with our knowledge. All three of us knew a bit about at least one item. So, we just put our knowledge together and came up with this idea with the loud annoying sound with microbits and we were all familiar with them so it worked out great. The materials we would need to create and build this would be one microbit, multiple alligator clips, microbit attachment speaker to spread the volume and make it loud, and finally you would need a 3D printer available. Our starting steps are to attach the microbit with the speaker then create the code on the microbit, then design what we are 3D printing.
DREAM:
Our main idea is to help try to keep the predators in Tanzania away from the bee hives so the hives can continue to grow and keep producing honey for the beekeepers to sell and end u making their income. If a predator gets at the hives it can takeaway from the beekeepers income and we want them to get as much income as possible. Saul Mwame helped us with our idea in the second conversation with Saul Mwame he made it clear that they are trying to find ways to keep their hives safe and possible for income.
DEBRIEF:
So far we are till working on our device project to try to help Saul Mwame we should be finished this week and so far our solution to our problem is coming along and its working as of right now and hopefully will get the best outcome possible. I think we could definitely improve on being more on task and I wasn’t there for a couple classes when we were working on these and we needed to catch up to the other group’s speed and continue at that working speed.
MEDIA:
I thought the zoom meetings went great and the questions we asked each time were great questions and he gave a great explanation to us and that shows how passionate he is for what he does.
