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Final Design Process Reflection

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Sofia H

Team Members: Eddie,  Ahanu

For our first design of the train there was one disc magnet in the middle of the train bottom. The train was a foam square. For the track there was one strip magnet and on that strip magnet there was ten other disk magnets  the strip magnet was a long black magnet.

When we were making the maglev train track we used way too much tape. The magnets we used were wrong because it has to line up with the magnet correctly to work.

Our final design worked because we took off the disk magnets on the bottom of the train and replaced it with two strip magnets on both edges of the train and they were lined up correctly.

When we worked on the project I had many feelings like exited, worried, and happy. I was exited because it was our first try to make it levitate.  I was worried because I was thinking “What if it doesn’t work?”and “What will we do?” I was also happy because it finally worked and we put forty eight marbles in the cup on top of the train.

Maglev Reflection #1

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Final Design Process Reflection

by: Jordan 

Group Members: Milo, and Dylan

Our train had 2 long strip magnets 4 north and south pole magnets and masking tape we put the long strip magnets at the side of the inside part of the box and we put tape under the long strip magnets and taped the north and south magnets over the long strip magnets.

The first problem with our train was it wouldn’t levitate high enough and our groups solution was to take away the north and south magnets and we added five long strip magnets on each side of the track and it levitated high enough.

Our last design was putting five long strip on each end and on the car we put 2 small strip magnets we also put tape under the the small strip magnets so the magnets would stick. We also taped the two cups with the tape so the cups would not slip off the train.

One of my thoughts going through this process was that we are going to do it to make the train levitate and one of my feelings was I was very excited. I was excited because it was cool to have the opportunity to do this.