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Maglev Train day 2
On day 2 for the maglev trains it was a hard day and I will tell you why. We were so close from making the train go all the way passed the manila track it has to go both ways and my group only got it to go one way. The other groups got it so they could try to put as many marbles on the train as they could. The being an engineer is very hard and it is so frusterating. You could easily lose your temper like I did. We tried new ideas we had to take the magnets of we used almost I whole piece of tape we had to tape it again it We had to use large pieces of tape. We had lot’s of fails and lot’s of successes but mostly fails. If you be an engineer it is so hard but i am not saying you should not be an engineer it is just that it is so hard. From our fails we learned that we should not use ring magnets and bar magnets that we should use strip magnets before we tried the train my group always thought that we should not use strip magnets. The engineering was very hard and frusterating and hard but the good thing was that it was very fun and that is all I care about all I care about is having fun and being an engineer was very fun. There were so many magnets to chose from my group had no idea what to chose. At the start of being an engineer we used lot’s of ring magnets and bar magnets but then we are thinking you only need 2 or 3 strip magnets on the track and 3 strip magnets on the train. Here is a picture of my group.
Maglev Reflection – day 1
This week my class has been working about maglev trains. It is very fun but it is very hard. We worked in groups. If you work in a group it is really hard because you could have lots of arguments and if someone has an idea if you do not like it you have to deal with it and that is a hard thing to do.
My group tried lots of strategies like bar magnets and ring magnets and strip magnets and only bar magnets and ring magnets. Bar magnets were better, but none of them worked, but the good thing was my group never gave up. Maybe my group will get it next time!
We had lots of fails but that actually is a good thing so you could always fix your mistakes. We put lots of magnets we put ring magnets, strip magnets, bar magnets and disc magnets. We had lots of arguments but we finally got one idea which was bar magnets and ring magnets.
My group was challenged so many times but we kept on working and working and working. Before we got our final idea we planned a lot, we worked hard on projects we tested out lot’s of things and more. We learned the engineering design process and it helped a lot because we were designing creating asking and everything else on the engineering design process.
The ideas mostly did not work because it was attracting, so my group could not flick the phoam train. You need the magnets to repel so you could flick the train so it could go all of the way past the track and that is the goal, that is what we are supposed to do. And it is very hard I mean very hard. No group has flicked the train all of the way passed the manila track. I hope today will be my lucky day so my group could flick it passed the manila track. Today my group will probably will try new designs or try to make the designs that we tried even better. It will be a great experience.