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Passion project #7-The journey

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As my passion project has came to an end it is now time to reflect on everything that I have done. Firstly I’m going to tell you about the pros and cons of doing an E-Learning passion project.

The pros of working at home are that you can work on your passion project for as long as you like, because your at home. The cons on the other hand is that there are not. Any teachers to help you with this project in person. The pros and cons balance each other out.

Through the this journey I had to learn to do things on my own. My parents are super busy at work and I obviously cant get help from a teacher. For example I had to learn how to research on my own. I went to different websites and took out information from all of them.

There also has been one last thing that I have truly learned about through this journey.  I love researching when I am researching something that I like.

I really hope that we do something like this again!

Passion Project Resources

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After Crafting my final presentation it is time to give you all of the sites  that helped me get all of the information I need.

The resources I got my information from are:

NASA

Cal Tech

University of Illinois.

All of these resources were found online.

I am glad to say that my passion project has gone as planned.

Stay alert for my final blog post.

Passion Project Post #6 – The Final Product

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As you heard in my last post I have been struggling trying to figure out what should be in my final product. But that challenge has passed. After figuring out what tool put in the video I had to actually make the video. First I wrote a script for me to read. Then I recorded myself. After an hour and a half of hard work I had my narration completed. Next I inserted videos and pictures to help viewers understand what was going on, this took an hour. Then I revised showed my family and went back to my normal work.

But when I woke up the next morning my video was gone. I  tried to get it back but it wa no use. And the worst thing was I had just told Mr. DeBerry that I would be done by tomorrow!

I didn’t know hat to do. But I then realized that my voiceover clips were still there, so I put them back together and that was done. I spent the next hour an a half putting all of my media and videos back in.

At least it was finished. I plan to share my project on Wednesday even though I am don today. Stay tuned for more posts!

Tech Post #9-The END

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Sadly Tech has came to an end. We didn’t get to make anything in tech because of the virus, but on the bright side we learned about engineering and atoms. We improvised and did what we could. Mr. Calvert did a good job at finding us fun projects to do. We made du with a bad situation and made this quarter as fun as possible.

Sure it would have been fun to make flashlights and automata but we learned about atoms and engineering instead. That was still fun! Overall I think that Tech was defiantly a quarterly that I will never forget.

Thank you for a good quarter Mr. Calvert

Tech post#8-Fun Engineering Project

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Today we made a simple triangular structure in technology. Everyone did there own and they all turned out different! You may be wondering how we managed this over the internet. We did this by using simple things to build with. I used marshmallows and toothpicks. My structure turned out like this:

 

 

 

I mad this structure by using many triangles. M.R. Calvert taught us that since triangles are the strongest shape, it only makes sense that triangular structures are stronger then others.

Next I placed a book on top of my structure, this is what happened.

My structure for the most part held up! It flattened out a bit, but it didn’t totally colapse.!

This is the most fun project I’ve had in my entire E-Learning experience.

Tech post #7 I hope we get back to school

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I’m really starting to miss tech class. Online technology is just not the same. There isn’t the thrill of working with soldering irons, or making incredible automata. I can tell that were not going back to tech this year. I feel as if I have missed out on so many things.

I thought that tech would be my favorite quarterly, and it was until this virus hit. I’m not a fan of E-Learning in general, but how do you build fun things over the internet when you don’t have the tools required.

Oh I wish I had tech second quarter.

Passion Project #5-Challanges

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Through the course of the passion project journey I had to overcome many obstacles. The biggest one was figuring out what to put in my final product.

Over the course of the project I have filled out many documents of information and I had to squeeze it into a 6 minute video. I ran through all of my information and highlighted the best parts. This alone took hours. But when I completed it I knew that more challenges would await me. I still had not even started my final product and who knew if I could complete it by the deadline of Friday.

But I was more worried about noodle tools. I missed a zoom lesson on noodle tools and I only have a faint idea of what it is. And to make matters worse every time I try to get into the website it kicks me out. I have contacted my teacher on this and I am hoping that he responds.

Stay tuned for more updates

Tech Post #6-Not going a planned

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This year in tech I was planning on doing all kinds of crazy things like soldering and making all kinds of things. But right now all that I am making is blog posts.

As you have learned from my last post things are not going as planned. We have been stuck at home for the past month and are expected to be waiting at least one more until we are back in school. The virus has spread so much that were not exactly sure were going back to school.

But we had to make de with a bad situation. We have now started a mechanical engineering  unit. Our first lesson was yesterday. It was the most fun lesson I had in all of my E-learning experience.

So until  we can go back to school we are making due of a bad situation by learning about Mechanical Engingneering. Stay tuned for more updates.

Blog Post #4-Learning about myself

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Throughout this passion project I have done many different things,  such as writing and reading. But through this project I think that I have spent the most time on Researching. I find that when I find something interesting, and is what I am researching about, I won’t stop until I get all of the information that I need. I will just keep reading without having any will to stop.

That is another reason that I think that I chose a good topic, I chose something interesting that I want to learn about.

In addition to researching I find that I am also a big blogger. After all I have already wrote more than the required number.

I can’t wait until I finish my research and I can work on my final product.