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Tech Team Quarter 2 Reflection + Critical Thinking

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This quarter while I mainly focused on university applications, I also ran the spoken word livestream, and helped at the spirit assembly and Christmas cards.

My activities this term has helped me improve my ability in time management and patience. Working with the spoken word livestream, I had to arrange to test equipment ahead of time. Working with people from multiple different departments, I communicated clearly my progress and goals.

I found there are always changes that can be applied even in the middle of an event. During Spoken Words, I found that internet speed was occasionally an issue. We were then able to find an ethernet port and adapter connecting to ethernet, improving the quality of our livestream.

I can reflect and assess my work to identify potential problems and solutions. This was demonstrated in the initial testing stages of the spoken word livestream. I identified problems by taking the whole set up and separating them into small pieces. This allowed to be pick out what I needed to replace. I then assess how different solutions fit in to our situation and finalized a decision based on weighting the pros and cons.

Tech team – CRICUT | LOGO + STICKERS – Eric He

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I wanted to make a League of Legends logo as the world championship is happening right now and this game has been a huge part of my life.

A challenging part was working out a design, because the actual logo is muti-colored with gradients and other aspects which are difficult for the Cricut.

What worked well is actually the exact thing that went wrong, finding the shiny gold color works very well with the logo in this design. All the other process of working using the Cricut also went pretty well since others were there to help me when I didn’t understand what to do.

I learned just because something didn’t turn out the exact way I wanted it to that doesn’t mean it can’t turn out amazing. Finding alternate solutions would be an amazing skill to have in terms of not being wasteful and letting opportunity past by.

Science 10 – Rube Goldberg Machine “Party up”

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Written explanation:

My Rube Goldberg Machine called the “Party up” plays music after I hit the light switch which starts a series of events.

Step 1: Once I hit the light switch, the bottom part of the light switch will pop out propelling a ball forward (Mechanical energy) down the inclined plane (Gravitational energy). After which it will hit a wedge to change it’s direction (Elastic energy).

Step 2: After changing directions the ball will fall off the boxes and hit the floor because the gravitational energy transfer into mechanical. However the ball will bounce back up due to the elastic energy turning into mechanical energy after hitting the ground. The ball will bounce into another inclined plane.

 

Step 3: In this second incline plane the ball will roll down and funnel into hitting a dominos transferring it’s mechanical energy then knocking over the next one transferring it’s mechanical energy and so on until it knocks the last dominos over

 

Step 4: The last dominos will fall into a box which will add enough weight to push down the forward button on the remote controller.

 

 

Step 5: The batteries inside the remote controller(Chemical energy) will transfer into infrared signal (Light energy) for the car to receive. Upon receiving the signal the batteries inside the robot (Chemical energy) will turn into Electrical energy which will turn into Mechanical energy moving forward using the wheel and axel on the robot

 

Step 6: The robot will move forward and push the 2 cans that are sticking to each other with their magnetic energy.

 

 

Step 7: A blockade will stop the bottom can from moving forward, causing it to lose it’s magnetic attraction with the top can. In turn causing it to fall on to a platform due to it’s Gravitational energy transforming into Mechanical energy. Where the platform will push down the space bar on the keyboard.

 

Step 8: Lastly, the electrical energy which the computer uses will turn into music (Sound energy).

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Music credit: “Bowsette” by The Chalkeaters