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Final Design Process Reflection

By: Emma

Team members: Ryan, Luke I

For my first track design we put strip magnets as the track and for my vehicle design we put red magnets under the foam vehicle. We used 4 little strip magnets, 7 ring magnets, 7 disc magnets, 1 long strip magnet and 4 red magnets. We put the 4 little strip magnets on the bottom left, one long strip magnet on the other side, 4 red magnets under the foam vehicle, so it will levitate, 7 ring magnets on the right side and 7 disc magnets on the left.

One problem we faced was when the foam vehicle did not repel against the track. Instead the train stuck to the strip magnets on the track. It was very frustrating. The way we revised it was we lined up the track magnets to the magnets on the foam vehicle and it levitated.

When we did our final designs, we used 2 little magnets and 2 long strip magnet. We did not use the 7 ring magnets, the 7 disc magnets and the 2 little strip magnets. I think it worked because the track lined up with the foam vehicle. When they were arranged we put 2 long strip magnets as the track and 2 little magnets under the foam vehicle.

I felt happy in the beginning because I was so excited to start putting it together. I felt frustrated when our plan wasn’t working over and over again and it was really annoying when others plans were working. I felt proud because in the end we got it to work no matter how hard we tried it was worth it in the end.

 

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Maglev Final Design Process Reflection                                                                  

By: Dylan

Team members: Milo and Jordan                                                                                                                                                                            For my groups first design  of our car and track we used strip magnets. We used two short strip magnets for the vehicle. We put the short strip on the edges. For the track we used two long strip magnets. We put one strip on each side of track.

One problem my group had was when we were testing out how many marbles our train could hold.We had thirty five marbles on the train. The train foam piece kept bending. The way we fixed this problem was by putting less marbles in the cup.

For the final design we used two short strip magnets for the vehicle. We put the short strip on the edges. For the track we used two long strip magnets. We put one strip on each side of track.This design worked  because the magnets were lined up.

I felt nervous that our design wouldn’t work. But it did work and sometimes I was excited to test it out. I felt  proud of us for making it work. Sometimes I felt annoyed because we couldn’t agree if it was floating or not. Sometimes I felt happy because we were having a good time working together. Sometimes I felt interested because like why is it not working, or amazed that it worked or kept going.

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 Final Design Process Reflection


By: Milo

Group members: Jordan, and Dylan

 

The materials our group used at first was two long strip magnets, masking tape, 4 north and south magnets, and two short strip magnets. Our groups first design was putting about two layers of long strip magnets layed down on the bottom of the track on the right and left side. On the train we put two short strip magnets on the bottom of the train.

The first problem we had was the train was not levitating high enough. Our groups solution was putting five long strip magnets on each side of the track. When we tried it again it held 55 marbles.                                                                                                                                                                       

Our last design was putting about seven layers of long strip magnets on each side of the track. On the train car we put two short strip magnets one on each side.

I felt nervous, and happy. I felt nervous when it was our turn to show how strong are train was by putting marbles in the cup that was taped to the top of the cup. I felt happy when our car was able to hold 82 magnets.

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Maglev Reflection

By: Jake

Team Members: Noah and Agam

Our first idea to design the track was to use 5 ring magnets, 2 short strip magnets, 2 north and south magnets. We planned to put the north and south magnets on the ends of the track. Then we wanted to put 5 ring magnets along the edges of the track. For the train we put 4 disk magnets and two short strip magnets. And it is going diagonal up and down.

A problem our group had was that the train was not a mirror image of track. and  we were like it is not a mirror image. One way we made it better is we change it to a mirror.

On are final design we had 1 disc magnet 12 north-south magnets 7 short srip magnets. 2 short strip magnets.

I felt nervous because our group was unable to get any marbles in the cup.Although I did feel a little better because our team did not wind up in last place. Our team worked well together and tried really hard to get the train to work.

 

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By:Peyton schwadron

Group members: Eden, Kyle, Kabir

Our first design for our track was five strip magnets and two ring magnets. We put the ring magnets on the sides off the track. One of the ring magnets attracted the car the other repealed the car. All the magnets were horizontal so we hoped the car would go across.

One problem we faced was that our car was not floating high enough so we couldn’t get it across the track.The way we solved our problem was that we had to adjust the magnets and make the magnets on the track and on the car matching so it would float higher and go across the track.

Our final design was four strip magnets.Two small strip magnets were for the car and two bigger strip magnets were for the track. All of the magnets are horizontal so the car would go across.

When we were building the car and track I felt frustrated because we couldn’t get the car to float high enough so it didn’t go across the track. I also felt kind of happy because when we were done we got it to float really high and got a lot of marbles in the cup.

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By: Kabir    

Members: Peyton,Kyle,Eden

We taped 5 long strip magnets to the track we put the magnets horizontally. For the car we cut a short strip magnet into 4 pieces and put them in the corners and put another short strip magnet in the middle of the styrofoam train.

We faced the problem that the train and the track where not a mirror image so we had to change both of them to make them a mirror image so the car floated higher.

Our final design was two long strip magnets in the corners for the maglev track and for the car we had two short.

A feeling that I felt was frustrated because the train and the track weren’t working. It was not working and when it  finally worked excited and very happy when it was done.

 

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Final Design Process Reflection

By:Eddie

Team Members:  Sofia H and Ahanu

My team’s first design for the track was 10 disc magnets, 1 big strip magnet and 1 ring magnet. For the train we taped the ring magnet in the middle of the train with the bottom of the magnet facing north. On the track we put the big strip magnet in the middle of the track and the magnet was facing south. We put the 10 disc magnets on top of the big strip magnet so they can attract.

The problem for our team was that the train kept flipping over and attracting to the track. We improved it by taking the disc magnets off the track and flipping the big bar magnet over so the top of the magnet was facing north, that made it to float but it didn’t make it to go across.

The final design my team made was we put two small strip magnets facing north on the train and two big strip magnets also facing north on the track. We put them in the exact same place but two magnets were on the train and two were on the track just like there was a mirror in between the train and the track.

My feelings for when my team and I were making the Maglev train was angry that it kept flipping over and nervous that we were not going to finish in time.

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Final Design Process Reflection

Name: Sofia S

Group members: Me, Brady, Sammy

My group first started off with 4 disc magnets on the bottom of the car. Two of each disc magnets were on the side of the car. There were 20 ring magnets on the track. The ring magnets were lined up with 10 ring magnets on one side, and 10 ring magnets on the other side of the track.   

A problem my group faced was we had different types of magnets on our car and our track. Therefore,  we knew we had to change our magnets to be the same if we wanted the car to float.

Our final design had 2 strip magnets on the car and the on the track. It worked because we had the same magnets on the car and the track. We also made sure that the magnets lined up, and they did! But one thing that was off is the car would sometimes tilt, but then we fixed that by rearranging the magnets. We also rearranged it many times, but then we finally fixed it.                                                                                                                                           

We felt proud that we got the car to float, and then  again when we put marbles in a cup on the car, it worked! That made us feel really proud. We are very happy our project worked although there were a few mistakes. Put what made it fun was how much work we did, that project was really fun and it was all worth it in the end. I hope we do a new fun project like this one again.