I made a catapult in technology. It was really fun, and did not take long. We had to make a Flipgrid of us testing out our catapult, mine worked really well. I put a dice inside of it, and it shot it out across the room. Then, we measured and got the mechanical advantage. My effort arm is 63.5 mm. My load arm is also 63.5 mm. We had to divide those together to get the mechanical advantage, which was one.

I made up a game with the catapult I made for technology. Basically there are 4 cups on the ground in different places, with post its on them that say different points. The cups that are the farthest away are worth more while the ones that are closer are worth less. You need to try and shoot something in the catapult, into those cups. It is really hard! I played for 30 minutes and still had no points!

You probably have seen lots of movies, but you might have never thought about how they are made. Well I can tell you. With every movie there is a director, producer and hundreds of other members. So, the producer is the person who chooses what to make the movie about, and funds the movie. They are in charge of everything that happens in the making of the movie. The director is in charge of anything the audience is going to see. They choose what the audience will see on screen. First, the producer has to hire everyone who will help in the production. Those include, actors, writers, animators (if the movie is animated) and more! Then the writers have to write the script. Music writers also have to write the music (if there is any). They will later bring the actors in and film them. If the movie is animated, the actors just need to have their voice recording, but if it is not animated they have to act too.  The animators, (if it is animated) need to then animate the characters. About once a month, lots of directors from other productions are brought in and shown the current product of the movie. They will give feedback, and the movie will be worked in and showed to them again soon after. Finally, when this process is over and the directors say it is perfect, it is released.

For this project, we had to build a beam and then test it. For one beam, we had to follow instructions to do it, and for the next one we had to build and design it by ourselves.  The first one came out really good. It wasn’t hard to make, but it still took a long time. And for the second one, I used a more complex design with lots of triangles. When I tested it, the one with the instructions did really well. It was able to hold so much fruit, including 4 lemons, 2 apples, a pineapple, an avocado, and a bag of tomatoes before it fell. But for the second one, it didn’t do as well. It was able to hold 4 lemons, an avocado, an apple. It fell when I added the tomatoes.