Elevator

Elevator

Here is the picture of the program

Here is a picture of the elevator

This is the first elevator that only had the ground floor and the top floor

Here is a video of one of our first tests

Here is a video of the final test

     Over the past month, I have been in need of a new gaming PC, so I started doing work for my dad and in about three months I came up with just enough money for all the parts I need. It took me a while to assemble a list of all the best components in my price range, but once I did, I assembled it and started playing. The assembly was quite the adventure for me because I had absolutely no background knowledge in the process, but once I it started it all made sense from there.

parts:

GIGABYTE 760G MoBo

AMD Athlon II X3 450 Triple Core Processor

ADATA 4GB DDR3 Desktop Memory Module (x2)

Samsung 24X DVDRW

Thermaltake 500W PSU

Thermaltake V3 Blk Edt Mid Tower Case, & Case Fan Bundle

Asus Radeon HD 7750 Video Card - 1GB GDDR5

WD Blue 1TB Desktop Hard Drive

our marble sorter for principles of engineering

    In the past few week of my engineering class,my group (Isaiah, Ian, Shana) and I, have been working and testing ways to sort at least three different kinds of marbles. We constructed a device using fisher tech equipment and some other materials to separate wood, metal, and glass marbles. To separate the wood and metal from the glass we found that the glass were slightly bigger that the wood and metal, so we made a section of the track small enough for the glass ones to role on but big enough for the wood and metal ones to fall through. To separate the wood marbles form the metal ones, we used fans to blow the wood ones out of the way but not the metal ones, because the wood ones were significantly lighter than the metal ones.  Another aspect of the challenge was to make a funnel to set the marbles in to the sorter, for this we made a cone-like structure out of styro-paper and cardboard. When we were ready for our final test we came across some complications, first was the funnel, when we dropped the marbles they would jam at the exit of the funnel. Another complication that we came across was that when it came time for the wood to be separated from the metal, the marbles would be going too fast and wouldn't be affected by the fan. With a few modifications,  we were on our way to a semi functional marble sorter.

my cad model train, i am very proud .
personaly

Egg Drop Challenge

     This was my first egg drop challenge for me, my design was a bunch of sandwich bags inflated and taped together surrounding the egg. For most of this project I worked alone, until the final drop day, when Johnny came. My contraption, or pod, was completely deflated, so him and I reinforced it with a couple of more baggs. When we dropped the egg suvived landing in the bullseye. The seond time it dropped the egg cracked and it landed right outside of the bullseye. I feel that we got no acheivements because ours was definately not the smallest or the lightest, and ours fell pretty fast. i am looking foward to the third anual egg drop challenge.

khan academy

http://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/polynomials/v/factoring-trinomials-by-grouping-2
Provide "sustain" (positive) and "change" feedback regarding your experience with using the video to supplement your learning.
I used this video to help me with my math because i have a test on this subject in two days, it helped me remember some of the stuff we learned in classs.
"Sustain" - what works well for you with the video you chose? 
The way he explained it worked well for me
"Change" - Is there anything you would change regarding the video or the concept of "flipping the classroom".
I would have put more examples of different kinds of problems on the video
In your opinion, could "flipping the classroom" work out? Should education institutions work towards this new paradigm?
I dont think it could work out because you cant ask the video any questions.

balsa wood plane

1.the idea of this project was to create a plane out of balsa wood, glue, and tissue paper (other materials were provided)
 
this is my plane under construction-


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     I tested my plane for the first time and found out that it was a little back heavy, so  added some more balsa wood in the front of the plane, I addid it in a way were it look  a cool unique disign, after this happened my plane ended up flying the longest in the class. I also was the first in the class to finish my plane.