Tech 8

Today I am going to talk about FIRST LEGO LEAGUE. FIRST LEGO LEAGUE (FLL) is a collaboration between FIRST and LEGO. It is a competition where kids build and program robots out of lego technic bricks. It is fun and challenging, and I would recommend it to people.

Tech 7

We learned how to use Vectornator today. Vectornator is an app that graphic designers use to creat art. We’re going to be using to make things that we can put on the laser cutter. I found this a little difficult at firs, but it is starting to get much easier!

Tech 6

We did our flashlight project today. We learned how do use a blueprint, and blueprinted a flashlight. Then we cut out pipes and put a circuit in. This was a little more difficult, but it was still a fun project.

Tech 5

We started our switch project. We made switches out of cardboard, rubber bands, and straws. We connected these switches to a breadboard and played a self driving car game with a deck of cars. It was a really fun project.

Tech 4

Today we learned about breadboards. Breadboards are used to test out circuits. Circuit Boards are very expensive and you can only use them once. The Breadboards are much cheaper than the circuit boards and you can use them multiple times. Here is a picture of a circuit I made using a breadboard.

Tech 3

Today we learned about circuits. In a circuit you need a battery, or a source of power. Then you need a conductive source to carry the electrons through the circuit. If the electrons leap back to the other side of the battery then the battery will light on fire or get very hot. You need to have a lightbulb or a resistor to keep the electrons slow. The electrons are pulled to the positive side of the battery. They go through the conductive material and go to the other side of the battery. See you soon!

Aryan

Technology 2

In Class we finished up our jewelry pieces. We made the pieces by cutting small pieces of wire and then sticking it onto a ring that we created. We put a little flux and the sharp points  and the connecting points. Then we took saunter and melted it using the sauntering iron. We gently put a little saucer on the jewelry piece so that it would connect the two edges. After that we went t0 wash our hands, and that was what we did for the day.

Technology 1

Hello Mr. Calvert,

Sorry, I didn’t write Blog Posts because I was quarantining at home, but I did do what you posted about Atoms. Yesterday, we were shaped a wire into a shape of an earring. Today we tried to put that wire in the shape of the design that we made on the Jewelry sheet. I didn’t get very far : I only stuck the earring to the tape. I put my work in my envelope and put It away.

About the atoms: I learned that atoms make up matter, which makes up everything. An atom consists of two parts: The Nucleus and the Electrons. The Nucleus is made up of Protons and Neutrons. Protons are positively
charged, while Neutrons are neutral (not positive nor negative). The Electrons are negatively charged. The Electrons are attracted to the Protons (Opposite charges attract). That’s the overview of Atoms.

See you soon,

Aryan Mantena

Electoral College

I think that we should take out the electoral college, because it is not fair for the smaller states, The smaller states make up the majority of the United States of America, and if those states are not a lot of electoral votes, then they are left out because the candidates “mostly” go for the bigger states, and people from the smaller states might not vote because none of the candidates are paying attention to their state. We have to make it so that there is no Electoral College, because if people do not vote, there will be very bad consequences. What if people don’t vote because they don’t like either candidate. As I said the majority might not vote, which will leave us with no president which is a total disaster. We MUST TAKE OUT THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE, to have a better nation for all of us.

BIDEN!

Election Opinion

I think that Joe Biden should be president because he cares a lot about big problems, such as racial Justice and Climate Change. Biden says that Racial Justice is a big problem because people are getting killed and being treated unfairly for the color of their skin. For example he says, “I am committed to ridding the United States of America of Racial Justice. I will enact policies to close the racial wealth gap, which would cause no more racist laws, policies, and practices.” He also says that climate change is a big problem to not only the United States, but to the world. He supports the plan called “The Green New Deal”. He pledges to reduce the climate change to zero by 2050. He is caring for the country, so JOE BIDEN SHOULD BE PRESIDENT!