Rube Goldberg Blog Post #4

WE COMPLETELY CHANGED EVERYTHING UP! We scrapped our original one, and made a whole new one. I will put a video of both of them on my 6th blog post. We started using a different room (It was still connected to the bathroom, but it had more space), and I think that our new one is much better than the old one. It sure is much longer! Our new one has 10 steps, including me putting the ball through the tube. We had a bunch of fails, but it finally worked yesterday. If you haven’t read my other blog posts, our objective is to knock down a bowling pin. In our old one, a marble knocked down the bowling pin. In our new one, a ping pong ball, soaring from above, knocks our bowling pin down. I think it is really cool, and Michael agrees. We have both worked really hard on this, and we tried our best. We also tried to do everything on the best category in the rubric. That concludes my 4th blog post. Thanks for reading!

Rube Goldberg #3

This is my third Rube Goldberg blog post. My friend Michael and I have worked a lot on this project. If you don’t already know, a Rube Goldberg is a very complicated machine which is supposed to complete a simple task. Our simple task is knocking down bowling pins. We had to have at least 8 steps in our Rube Goldberg machine. Every transfer of energy counts as a step. A transfer of energy is when one object has energy and then hits another object, so object #1’s energy goes to object #2, which causes object #2 to move or hit another object. Michael is coming to my house later today to work more on the Rube Goldberg machine. We have worked very hard on this project, and we hope it works on the first try! But Rube Goldberg machines don’t usually work on the first try because if one of its many steps malfunctions, the whole machine won’t work! This is usually what happens. But we have hope!  Some of the difficulties I have encountered are that it sometimes fails and even if I get frustrated, I have to try again until it works. One time this happened is when I dropped the ball through the tube, it wasn’t perfectly in line with the big domino, so it missed. Another time this happened is when the small marble didn’t have enough power to move the big marble. Also, it was hard deciding what steps would make the cut and be in our Rube Goldberg, and what steps wouldn’t work. This is a picture of our Rube Goldberg so far:

 Stay tuned to hear more about our Rube Goldberg, and in the last post, I will include a video of our Rube Goldberg in action!

Volleyball

The Person On The Right In The Back Is My friend Cy, And On His Left Is Me!

This is our picture that we took a couple hours before the Volleyball game.

Ways I Can Reduce My Waste

  1. I can bring my own fork to restaurants.
  2. I can not get straws and drink without them.
  3. I can recycle instead of throwing things in the trash.
  4. I can take apart products before recycling them.
  5. I can use a reusable bag instead of getting a plastic bag and throwing it out.
  6. I can try to reuse things instead of throwing them away.
  7. When something breaks, I can try to fix it instead of throwing it away.

It was kind of hard to think of some of these because I initially didn’t think of that many. These are not hard to do. They only require a little extra effort. I would feel good after I do these because I know I just saved the world from the trash I was about to throw out.

100th Day Board Game

My Friends Cy, Michael, Alejandro, Brian, and I have been working on a game for the 100th Day. These are the rules:

  1. Solve Problems to Move Forward, and Eventually Win!
  2. Whoever is Younger Goes First.
  3. Roll The First Die and Then The Second. The Numbers You Get You Multiply.
  4. There are 20 Special Cards. Follow The Directions on Them When You Land On 1 Of The 4 Special Card Spots.
  5. If You Land on The Same Space as Someone Else, You Stay and They Go Back To The Beginning.
  6.  If ANYONE is Caught Cheating, They Automatically Go Back to Square 1.

We will play this game with our buddies on the 100th Day.

Rube Goldberg #2

Today our sketches were due. We have finished them. This is a picture of ours:

Sorry I didn’t explain what a Rube Goldberg is in my last post. It is a complicated chain reaction which ultimately achieves a simple task. That concludes my second blog post. Stay tuned!

Three Sentence Summary – Breakout

Three Sentence Summary – Breakout

There is a town called Wolf Creek, where everyone knows everyone, and nothing bad ever happens. But then two dangerous inmates, who were in prison for murder, break out. Everyone is scared, and the police are looking or the inmates constantly, and this book is about how it affects a girl and her friends.

This book is really good if you like suspense books and mystery.

This is the book cover:

The Team Whose Members Started It

My class has been writing an essay on Panyee FC. This is a link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU4oA3kkAWU. I hope you enjoy my essay!

The Team Whose Members Started It

By: Danny

 

Have you ever had to make your own lunch? Was it hard? Well, if you thought it was, imagine creating your own soccer team! Crazy, right? Well that is exactly what happened in Koh Panyee, 1986. The boys in “Panyee FC” had to do everything for themselves and never gave up. They had to do everything for themselves because no one was there to help them, and never gave up because they were determined. A group of friends decided to start their own soccer team, and worked very hard building, practicing, and eventually, placing 3rd in a tournament at the mainland. They started a legacy which lead to them being Southern Thailand Youth Champions in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010.

 

The boys in “Panyee FC” have to do everything for themselves and never give up. They have to do everything for themselves because no one is there to help them. They never give up because they’re determined. One reason for this is that they have to build a pitch by themselves, even though it seems impossible. It seems this way because it demands a lot more time and effort than average kids can give. The boys built the pitch because they wanted to make a soccer club, but no one was there to support them, so they had to support themselves, and they succeeded. I saw them practicing as hard as they can by playing games and improving their footwork and precision. In the text it says “We figured we’d have to create our own space” This means that they had to build their own pitch. They did this because they were determined to play soccer, even if nobody supported them. I know this because in the video they were working very hard to build the pitch and develop their skills. I saw them gathering wood, hammering the wood, and painting the goals.

 

The boys in “Panyee FC” have to do everything for themselves and never give up. They have to do everything for themselves because no one is there to help them and never give up because they are determined. Another reason for this is that the boys didn’t give up in the semi-finals of the tournament, even when they were losing. I saw them much more encouraged and ready to win during the second half of the game, when they came up with the idea to take off their shoes. When the boys put the shoe taking off plan in motion, they scored two goals on the other team because they were used to playing in bare feet because on their pitch they always played in bare feet, maybe because they couldn’t afford shoes. I saw them scoring goals because the video showed clips with good shots of both of their goals. In the text it states “We got rid of our wet boots” This means they took off their rain-filled soccer shoes. They did this because they knew they wouldn’t win with those heavy, wet boots on, so they took them off and that felt more comfortable for them. I know this because they had better footwork and were faster without shoes. I saw them scoring hard goals and juking the other team without shoes.

 

The boys in “Panyee FC” have to do everything for themselves and never give up. They have to do everything for themselves because no one is there to help them and never give up because they are determined. The demeaning villagers didn’t stop them because they were determined. I saw this when the boys were being laughed at and being made fun of by the villagers. When the villagers teased the boys, the boys always kept going on and practicing together. I saw this when the villager was laughing at them, but they still came up with the idea to build a pitch. In the text it states “Look around you. Look where you live.” This means that the villagers were trying to pull them down. The villagers did this because they thought the boys were crazy because they had never seen anything like what the boys were doing. I know this because in the video the villagers laughed at the boys but the boys continued playing anyway. I saw the villager laughing very hard when he heard the boys plan to create a soccer club.

 

These are some questions I have for the boys. One is “Did the boys think about what would happen if one of the other team’s players stepped on their bare feet?” Probably not, because if I were them, I would keep my shoes on for fear of someone stepping on them. Another question I have is “Did the villagers feel bad for making fun of the boys and laughing at them when the boys actually created the legacy and won a lot of games?” I think that they probably did because when the villagers realised that the boys were really good and had passion, they realised that they had brought the boys down and I think they felt really bad.

 

All these reasons show that the boys in “Panyee FC” have to do everything for themselves and never give up. They have to do everything for themselves because no one is there to help them and never give up because they are determined. The lesson these boys learned is that no matter what happens, you should follow your dream until it becomes reality. They learned this when they realized they didn’t have anywhere to play but then built a pitch. Also, they didn’t give up and followed their dream to play soccer when they didn’t stop playing when the villagers laughed at them. This applies to my life because I want to be a coder when I grow up, so I have to learn how and go to classes to achieve that. This text has many life lessons and is a good video. I really enjoyed it. It taught me a lot about life and lessons.

Rube Goldberg Blog Post #1

Today my friend Michael and I started something called Rube Goldberg. We set our things up in my upstairs bathroom. We know what we want to accomplish already. We are attempting to turn on a phone, which is a simple task, but we have to do many complicated steps achieve it. We have already created a sketch and thought about what materials we will use. They include Dominos, Marbles, Toilet Paper Roles, and Wooden Blocks. Stay tuned in my feed to learn more about Rube Goldberg and follow me and Michael across our steps, our tries, and our fails.