Yesterday we had maybe the most fun and the coolest technology project. We got to make catapults! We were given two designs to chose from, one had more popsicle sticks and less rubber band and the other had more rubber bands and less popsicle sticks. I chose the first one mainly because it seemed easier and I am not very confident in my ability to make catapults. It ended up turning out great and I shot dimes and penny’s. The best part about this was I got to shoot things a at my brother! Overall I think this was the best project so far, I had lots of fun.

Yesterday I had a lot of fun with Fab Maker Studio. It is a super cool program where you can essentially make 3D objects 2D so you can print them out, cut them, and then fold it so it is a paper version of the 3D shape. I experimented with a ton of designs but in the end it was a little too confusing for me so I just printed the step by step one. It was really interesting building it and just the concept of it was something that was unfamiliar to me, so I really enjoyed learning about it. Overall this weeks project was a blast and I can’t wait to do next weeks project!

Yesterday, I worked on a super fun tech project. This time we focused on trusses and how triangles are the strongest shape. What I did was make two cubes, one with trusses and one without. After multiple tests that consisted applying weight onto the cubes I found that, as expected, the one with trusses didn’t brake when the simple cube fell apart. Overall I had so much fun with this project and I am super excited to see what’s next!

Yesterday I did my first tech project, I had a lot of fun with it. The project focused on the strength of an I-beam compared to the strength of a “cardboard sandwich.” I found that after a series of tests the I-beam was much stronger, my tests consisted of positioning my beam across to tissue boxes like a bridge and then placing quarters in the middle of them. The results were, as I said before, the I-beam was way stronger I think this was because the I-beam was supported through the entire beam when the “cardboard sandwich” was only supported on the ends. Overall I had a bunch of fun and my favorite part was that I was able to build something cool with materials I have lying around my house!

I had the most fun on the scratch math project. It was super cool how I was able to create a math question and people could answer it and I could choose what the response would be if they got it wrong or right. I learned a lot of new cool stuff, most of the code in the project was brand new to me so I thought  it was all super interesting. The fact that I was able to make something like that from practically nothing really amazes me and makes me proud of what I did.

I played Tavish’s maze. I thought that it was really good, especially the obstacle that moved around the game. I really enjoyed that there was music when you lost or won, I thought it was super neat that it wasn’t just a super easy maze and it took me a couple of tries to complete it. The one thing that wasn’t great is the scoring system, I did not understand how it worked. Overall it was a great game.

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I really enjoyed “Learn to Code 1” it taught me a lot about coding but in a fun and efficient way that made me want to do more. It felt more like a game than a class. As I progressed the challenges started to gradually get harder. My favorite section was functions because I thought it was very interesting and it was challenging.

At first it was a little bit challenging to figure out how to solve one of the 4 sides, but when I did it was very easy to make it loop 4 times. The  key to figuring out “Looping All The Sides” is knowing how to do one of the sides.

For my music video I made the start of my music by my self, I used multiple different percussion instruments and then I added a pre made sound after it. I think it sounds pretty cool! I am working on the animation, at the moment I am trying to get my sprite to move when a new part of the music starts, it is a little bit hard but I am almost done with that part. In the near future I plan to add effects to my sprite so it looks a little bit more interesting.

I think that it was pretty cool to learn about how much computer science can do. It is amazing that it can revolutionize agriculture, energy, and in the near future it will be able diagnose you.