It’s year in tech has been fun. My favorite project was the laser cutting. I liked it because i thought it was cool how it cuts perfect shapes. My favorite tool was the scroll saw. My favorite activity was probably when we did the escape room.
For my laser cutting project i have decided to do the giants logo because the knicks would take to much time. I chose this because i love the giants. Mr Calvert had a cool idea that i would cut different layers so it would look like its popping out. I think it will look really cool once I’m done.
Next week we will be using the laser cutter. The laser is so hop it burns through wood to cut out different shapes. I made a banner. On the banner i made it say my name. For my next logo I’m thinking about doing a logo of sport teams. I might do the knicks. I thought this project was cool.
This week in tech i made a flash light. The assignment was to make a water proof flash light for a soccer team that was stuck in a cave. It had to be water proof because the cave had a lot of water in it. The kids did not know how to swim and the cave was really dark. Overall i thought this project was fun and interesting. This is my final project.
This week i finished light switch project. I thought it was very fun. I learned how to make a light bulb work. I also learned that tinfoil on tinfoil makes power to make the light light up. I thought it was cool seeing everyone’s ideas when we shared them some of them were really cool. A picture of mine are below.
This week i finished my jewelry project. I chose this design because it was for my mom and her friends call her SA. The step that I did for this was 1 i thought of designs to make. 2 i chose one of the designs that i made i chose Sa. 3 i started to make the design with metal wire. 4 i sottered the pieces of medal. Then i was done. This was my final project.
Today in class we learned about how a light bulb works. This picture shows an example of what i did. I put batteries connected to wires connected to the lightbulb. The reason there’s a fire is because there is so much power. Overall i liked this lesson.
What I am looking forward to in tech this year is using the power tools because they Are cool. Another thing I’m looking forward to in tech this year is making projects.
One session I liked that we already did was break out I liked this because I liked working together with my classmates. Another session I liked was the atoms session. I liked this because I thought it was interesting learning about space and chemicals.
For my capstone project my inquiry question was how has the three point line in basketball evolved over the years and how has it changed the game? The three point line is a line from which the basketball can be shot so that the shooter receives three points for the team. The three point line is a line in basketball that is 23 feet and 9 inches for the NBA and 22 feet and 1.29 inches for college.
One way that the three point line has changed basketball is scoring. For example Five years after the Three Point Line was added, NBA teams were only averaging 2.4 three-point attempts (3PA) per game. This past season, James Harden alone averaged 10 and teams averaged 29. Another example is In the past 20 years teams have doubled their use of the three point shot. The reason why teams are shooting so many three point shots is 100 mid-range jumpers will provide 79 points on average, while 100 above-the-break 3s would provide 105.
Another way the three point line has changed basketball is coaching strategies. For example teams have based their entire offense around shooting 3 point shots. Another example is the league used to be a Big Man’s league, made up of men above the height of 6 feet tall, and has now moved into a guard’s league where shooting 3 point shots is key to a team’s success. Another example is in practices coaches have to work on shooting more.
The process of this project was hard because I had to gather so much information with even some that I didn’t even use. I also had to find so many pictures. the recording frustrating because sometimes I would have to record it several times because it didn’t come out clear or it was glitchy. Overall I thought every thing came out great when I was done.
Last Thursday I interviewed Dave Duke, the basketball coach at Adelphi University. I interviewed him because I heard he is a great coach who uses the 3 point shot in his offense a lot. In fact, he told me that he models his offense just like the Golden State Warriors (the best 3 point shooting team in the NBA). I was really excited to interview him and understand how he uses the 3 point line. We spent time talking about his team and strategies for offense and defense.
The process of finding someone to interview was easy because my dad thought of his friend who has a brother who coaches at the college level. It was made even better when I realized that he loves the 3 point line and models his offense off the Golden State Warriors.
Coach Dave was really nice and had a ton of information about the game. He explained stats and how he uses analytics to make his team better. I didn’t even know what analytics were, but it has become such an important part of coaching. He talked a lot about why he depends on the 3 point line as much as he does and how the regular 2 point jump shot is just not as important as it used to be.
Overall the interview went great and it was really fun!