AUGUST

AUGUST 8, 2016-August 12, 2016



August 8, 2016


Our first day of principles of engineering was exciting and fun. We were introduced to the class and what will we be doing throught the year. Dr.Neato split us into two groups. One group would get a tour of the shop and the other will stay in the classroom. We got a tour of the shop and we got to see the different machines that we will be working with throught the year.


August 9, 2016


On tuesday we had switched groups and were in the classroom with dr.neato. We had played a name game to learn everybodys name throught the class. there was a lot of kids to memorize all their names but somehow i managed to memorize them. It was fun because we had learned the names of the classmates that we will be with throught the year.


August 10, 2016


On wednesday, we formed our groups for the wednesday challenge. Our challenge was to make a spagetti bridge out of spagetti. The wednesday challenge was fun and challenging because we had to come up with an idea about how to make a bridge out of spagetti strong and sturdy. we had many ideas to choose from but we had fianlly came to a descision.


August 11, 2016



On thursday we made our first rough draft of what our bridge would look like and then we glued our pieces of spagetti together to make our rough draft bridge. When we had come up with our idea, we had to cut up the spagetti into smaller pieces to fit our design. After cutting it we then glued all those pieces together and set it outside to dry.


August 12, 2016



On Friday Dr. Neato taught os how to make a website. When we came into the class we had gotten our computers and we got a lesson from Dr neato about how to make a website. I had made my first website that day and it was called Christian's website. i had added a couple of things to my title. I made my tilte move. I had also added a backround color and made it tan.


August 15, 2016 - August 19, 2016




August 15, 2016




Today we continued to learn about our website and how we can type paragraphs and sentences on the website. Edgar was driving that day and he taught us how to insert a heading and and many other things. After we had the lesson with edgar and dr. neato we had time to continue working on our websites. I had continued working on my first week of school on my website.


August 16, 2016




On tuesday we started off the day by having maddie driving. Maddie and dr. neato had showed us some tips and some cool tricks to use while making our website. I learned how to copy websites and insert them into my website.


August 17, 2016




Wednesday had kicked off with us starting to continue building our bridge. Right after we started class we had checked on our bridges because the last time that we had done bridges we glued our bridges again because apart of our bridge had broke off. We had accidentally used a little too much glue and that had caused it to become to sticky and that made it hard to take it off.


August 18, 2016




Today we worked on our websites again. The only different thing that we did was that we working on formatting and inserting documents. Another thing that We were working on was the Wednesday Challenge Form. For the whole period we had been working on filling out the problem and editing the form. It was a bit difficult to fill out the form but our group managed to finish.


August 19, 2016




Friday we got another chance to work on our bridges. When we got together with our groups we had broke our bridge last time because of the amount glue that we put on. We had also tried a new design when we had built our bridge again. I had helped with the gluing process of the bridge. After that we had put our bridge away so that it would dry.


August 22, 2016 - August 26, 2016


August 22, 2016




We kicked of our second week of school by logging on to our computers and getting a lesson from dr.Neato. Today we used sketchup on our computers coping and pasting and playing around with sketchup. One of the things that dr. Neato had us play around with is the longboard sketchup. We learned how to make the image bigger and smaller and change the different views of the object.




August 23, 2016




Tuesday we learned how to insert pictures into our website. Dr. neato had taught us how to put the pictures of the longboard sketchup that we did yesterday. We inserted the photos onto our website so that the picture for the skateboard can be shown.




August 24, 2016




wednesday we continued our wednesday challenge on the spagetti bridge and we had finished gluing our bride and we were on our final step in putting it together so that we could complete the challenge. In the end of gluing that day we had but our bridge to dry in the cabinent.




August 25, 2016

thursday Dr neato taught how to make it easier to edit our website to the public so that if we need to change something it will be easier. I had also added more things to my website about the things that we did throughout the week




August 26, 2016

Friday we had gotten a brief presintation from veterans on the jpl invention challenge. They told us what the challenge was and the different ideas that they had about the jpl invention. We had shared our ideas about their inventions and they gave us feedback about that. Mr. Wilton had also showed up and the link to his website is below.




Mr. Wiltons Website


August 29, 2016-September 2, 2016

Today we did the most interesting thing in the world...working/updated our websites. Unfotunatly the Filezilla server crashed at the end of class so me uploading my website earlier really paid off in the long run excelling my rate of concentration and lowering my now all time low of academic stress in one of the easiest classes ever (so far).

Tuesday was one of the most frustrating days ever when returning to the classroom we had taken our bridges out from gluing we were greeted with two deliberately damaged bridges and just one day until the real test on Thursday. We were pretty much told by Dr.Neato that we needed work better which was fine because it emphasized the environment of the real world and not just our little world in school and home.

Alright so Wednesday was sucky and became a lot more sucky when the protruding beams on one of our bridges fell off of the area where it was supposed to dry which sucked the hope and optimism left from Yesterday.

Finally testing day was here for our bridge(s) and we chose to go with our mainly glue bridge that had protruding beams from both sides of the bridge. Well it turns out Thursday wasn't the greatest day because of some miscommunication between a "builder" and an instructor during construction so we were eliminated thanks to the beams touching the sides of the block. These are the results.


Spaghetti Bridge Wednesday Challenge Form




Competition Results