This is my final blog post…

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I am really sad to be leaving tech because I think that tech has taught me a lot of things, like about atoms and trying to achieve something. I remember being excited everyday for tech, but now, it’s all over! I hope that I can come back again to this tech classroom!!! 😊

Hi! today is the last day of tech and we are just finishing up some stuff that we have to do. I am really sad, even though Mr.Calvert said that we could come and do things at lunch or after school. I am thinking that tech is the best quarterly so far because we get to make things that we haven’t made before and do fun things like making flashlights and circuits. Some things that I think were the best about tech:

1.  Flashlight and circuit building
2. learning about atoms
3. being creative and having fun!! 😉

In this blog post, I will be talking about the challenges and the easy parts of building a flashlight.

Challenges:

1. Making the plan – I thought that making the plan was pretty hard because this was where the whole thing started and you had to make a lot of decisions about angles and circuits.
2. Making the circuit – Making the circuit involved soldering, and I tend to get scared of heat being too close and soldering can melt hair. I made sure to stay well away from the soldering iron because if my hair got melted, I would never see the end of it.

Easy Parts

1. Drilling holes – Drilling holes was very easy because there was not as much danger as soldering and I didn’t need as much precision as soldering.
2.  Decorating – I love decorating (as you could see in my last blog post) and I might have decorated too much, but I loved that it made flashlight building more fun than if we had to keep them all plain.

Thank you and see you in my next blog post! 😜

Today, we drilled holes into our flashlights. We drilled these holes with a drill press:

We also started decorating our flashlights with gems, Pom poms, and Sharpies. My flashlight’s plan was already drafted and I think that this helps me a lot because without the blueprint, I would be very disorganized and I do not think that when building a flashlight, this is good. I also think that I always had something to come back to if I couldn’t remember what I intended to do.

We are in hte middle of making flashlights! Mr.Calvert told us we had to make a blueprint for making the flashlights. The materials that are most likely going to be used are PVC pipes, wires, a switch, and an LED light. The flashlights are supposed to be waterproof. They are supposed to look like this:

I am very excited to do this and with a little bit of help, I will make a great flashlight! 😄