In my house I think my containers for baking supplies are made from a 3D printer. The steps of 3-D printing are, blue printing a design, layering, and printing your design. Blue printing a design includes creating your design, this could be done using anything from tinker-cad to fancy software. Layering is when a computer takes in your design and cuts it up into pieces. 3D printing has impacted food, the fashion industry, scientific testing and more. 3D printing also makes building things like houses easier, faster and cheaper. A 3D invention of paper with materials besides for wood could help save more of our trees.
I enjoyed watching all the videos very much. My favorite part about the first video was seeing how they used to cut down trees, I was interesting in how they didn’t seem to have electric saws. In the second video, I learned how the job of a woodcutter can be dangerous if you are climbing trees or a tree falls on you. In the third video, I could see the difference in how it was more modern. I am interested to learn more about the automatic tree cutting machine they used. Finally, in the fourth video I learned the steps of a woodcutter’s job. Overall I liked learning more about trees.
When you are building something it means you are creating your own vision of whatever you want to make. Building something can look like hammering down a piece off wood, or soldering a circuit, it looks different for everyone. One time I built a flashlight last year in tech. I felt so good after I made it realizing that I could make a flashlight with only a bit of help from a friend. I still have it and still us the flashlight that I made. 
I enjoy building things because after I make the thing I feel so good about myself.
I had an assignment to make a game on scratch. I chose to make a pong game. This game involves moving a line at the bottom of your screen to were a ball moving around the screen will land. If you do not catch the ball then you will die in the game, and if you do, you will gain points. This was very fun to make and surprisingly not very hard.
This is my code for my line:
This is code for ball:
Overall I really enjoyed this last project.
I finished all the spreadsheets we had to do. I learned in this unit how to create averages, charts and sums on the computer so you do not have too. I enjoyed this unit because I got to learn how to use spreadsheets in a different way than I am used too. I would recommend playing with spreadsheets. You would be surprised how much you can learn. I was interested in the Mets and Yankees so I chose this spreadsheet. I added an average of home runs each year for Yankees and Mets. I also made a total home runs column for each year for the Yankees and Mets.
This is a picture of one of my spreadsheets:
I faced a big challenge while coding on swift playground. It took me a while to figure out. I had to come up with a pattern that would work every time, but the problem was I thought their had to be a different code every time. Turns out, I was wrong. Here is a picture of level when I was halfway finished with it:
I used this code:
moveForward ( )
collectGem ( )
solveStair ( )
moveForward ( )
collectGem ( )
solveStair ( )
turnLeft ( )
moveForward ( )
collectGem ( )
solveStair ( )
moveForward ( )
collectGem ( )
We recently finished doing some coding on swift playground. This was very interesting to me because I learned how to try put a lot of different way to do something and be able to keep trying. I really enjoyed this activity.
In scratch for computer tech we did another project. This project is called music video project. I watched a couple other peoples projects. I am going to be talking about one of the projects that I watched. What I like about this project is the setting that the person making this chose for the music video, I think it was very fitting. I also liked the way that the character moved when you clicked the green flag. Finally, the sound choice was upbeat and happy and fit into the mood. Overall I enjoyed this person‘s projects very much.
Last week I watched a video called code stars. In this video it talked about how everyone can learn to code and how coding is important for everyone to know how to do. I learned that coding is not as boring and hard as it seems. I now am more interested in coding after watching the video.
Last week in Computer Tech we make a project in Scratch. The project is called The About Me Project. In this project we described things that we like, what sport we play and other things. First, in my project I had a introduction slide where my character welcomed everyone to the project. Then, I had a slide about how I like to go to the beach and asked if others did too. I used a code on scratch to do this. Next, I said hat I like to take trips to the city. Finally, I said that I swim.
