Energy Sources

1. Describe one thing that surprised you about the energy source that you researched and presented.

How little we use it. Geothermal only counts for .35% of our total energy consumption.


2. Describe one thing that surprised you about an energy source that another team presented.

That solar is so expensive. Solar is .35 cents per KWH. Geothermal is .03 cents per KWH. To put that in perspective it cost 10 times the cost to the consumer if they pick solar over geothermal.



3. Describe and defend what you believe to be the most important technological need regarding energy.


I want our energy to be National.
I want the extraction over our energy to be eco friendly.
I want our energy to be renewable.

Carboard Canoe

I earned 10 achivements

 Criteria & Constraints - List or reference the specified Criteria and Constraints you're designing for. List at least one implied criteria. List at least three implied contsraints.


Criteria
• Build a watercraft that allows you to traverse the CHS swimming pool.
• Protect your workspace from damage!

Implied: get your boat to float.

Constraints
• All Staples or other foreign material must be removed from your cardboard. If we trash the pool, we will not be invited back for other activities during the year (yes, we have other activities in mind for 2nd semester).
• Cardboard must meet our quality standard and be approved by the instructor (more info to follow)
• Each boat must have a minimum of a 3" tall "sidewall" (no completely flat designs).
• All exposed cardboard must be covered in duct tape (this will reduce cardboard disintigration in the pool).
• Each team will be provided one "versa table" cardboard box piece and two 60yrd rolls of duct tape. Any materials beyond this (likely need more cardboard) need to be resourced by your team

Implied: fit through the door. You boat must becovered in ductape. You can only use carboard and ductape.




 Define the Problem and Brainstorm Solutions - State the problem you are designing a solution for. List at least 20 ideas you have regarding your solution.

1. Tape everything
2. Wight name on boat
3. Make corners better
4. Use stiff carboard on base
5. Use flimsy on walls
6. Make a strong bow
7. Put the fatter part at the back
8. Make front thinner than back
9. Make it big enough for 2 people
10. Make shure the walls dont give in
11. American flag
12. Stiff Carboard
13. Ores
14. Harness on swimmers
15. Fat bottom
16. Mermaid
17. Stiff carboard
18. Ductape rope
19. Yubes in front and back
20. Hook tubes to bow and stern
21. Large amount of surface to distribute weight
22. Hydrodynamic

Sketch Ideas

 Prototype Ideas - Craft physical prototypes (models) of each of your three sketches. Use a notecard or post it note to call out at least one key feature on each model. Post the images to your blog and describe the key feature that you've pointed out on each.



1

2

3



Select an Approach - Generate feedback (+, change, ?, !) and make a decision matrix regarding your sketches/prototypes. Specify the approach you've chosen and justify your selection.

We did number 2.

                                   Stabitity                Hydrodynamcis                    Durability                Total

Design 1 ( Ruy )        8                              6                                               9                        23

Design 2 ( Mike )     10                             0                                             10                        16

Design 3 ( Staney/    10                             6                                              10                       26

             Armoundo)

Build Achievements:• Build It!



Test Achievements:
• The Longest - Awarded to the team with the watercraft that floats the longest (multiple teams may be awarded this achievement if multiple boats remain afloat at the end of our competition period). - Build your watercraft. Document it with a presentable photo.




Reflection Achievements:
• Feedback - Generate ten items of feedback for your effort (from the design/build process and/or the actual product). Make sure you include at least one item of feedaback in each of our four feedback areas (+, change, ?, !)

•• Redesign - The same boat. Iwould get better swimmers though.

• Massive Cargo-  Have 3 peope in you boat and not sink.

Rules of the Road.

To "level the playing feild" i would add a minimum mass requriement.

Cars could only be so light


For my 3 ideas i would:

• I would introduce a money system.
• If there was a one of a kind parts people could auction on it.
• I would also have the inital money based on the quality of the blog and the success of the invention.  



E.O.D

On Sunday I went to a Fund Raiser

Over 30 men made the nearly 200 mile bike ride in 2 days from

Santa Monica to Liberty Station.

The goal was to fundraise the Wounded EOD Wariors foundation.



EOD, or Explosive Ordanice Disposal is a volunter post in the military. Open to canidates from Navy, Army, Marines, and Airforce.

These people are basicly the "bomb squad of the military".

The majority of these men are in the Army or Marines. They disable IED's.

Basicly the guys in the movie "The Hurt Locker"

At the fundraiser I got to play with some equipment.

First I was privileged to put on one of thoes suits.

The suit weighs 82 pounds.

It is equiped with a quick release incase it catches on fire.

Soliders are expeted to run, do push ups, and get up from the push up position.

It takes two people to put it on you.

It's very comfortable.

On my right arm theres a controll panel.

This controls suit features such as the

suits ventilation system.

I also got to play with an bomb robot.

 IRobot’s newly announced iRobot PackBot 510

The guy said it was the newest one his unit had and that he hadn't tinkered with it yet.

It was hooked up to an X-box controller.  

 Walking around were men whose legs have been blown off.

Today was a humbling, exciting, and fun day.

Above all it was Great!