This quarterly is my favorite out of the 3 that I have had so far. In Technology we do many fun and interesting projects. One of my favorites was the flashlight project. This one, our lat project was definitely the longest but involved everything we had learned in Technology and some more. All in all Technology was a great class.

This is the second post of quotes in the tech classroom. This time were going to discuss a quote that Thomas Edison once said. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” I think that this shows how we shouldn’t give up when times are hard. Also it shows that nothing is impossible if we actually try.

This is the second and final post for the flashlight project. The next step was to measure and cut three wires. After you cut the wires you would have to strip the ends so that you were able to solder the circuit together. When you were soldering your circuit you soldered the switch, the three wires, a battery holder, and the light for the flashlight. Once you completed soldering you were basically done except there was still some steps left. One of them was to cut your pipes so that the circuit would fit perfectly inside it. To do this we used a special type of saw. I thought that it would be hard but it actually wasn’t. If you had done every single one of these steps than you had to just get Mr. Calvert to put all the parts together and then you had a working and completed flashlight. There was actually one more step except it was optional and to decorate your flashlight. (below are some images of my completed flashlight)

This post is the first of the 2 posts I am going to do on the flashlights. My newest unit in Technology is making a flashlight. This project is by far the longest and hardest one. The first thing we did in this project was practicing measuring and drawing pipes on a planning paper. After we had some experience in doing this we drew our actually design on a sheet (image below). Once this was finished we drew the circuit for the flashlight on the sheet.

In the Technology classroom there are many posters with quotes on them. The quote I want to talk about is, “A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong,” said Michael Faraday. Personally, I think that this means don’t be overconfident in something because there’s a chance you may be wrong.

The other days we just finished a movie in Tech. It was mainly about plastic and how we need to reduce our use of it. As we watched the film there were some striking facts. One of them was that by 2050 it is predicted that there will be more plastic than fish in our oceans. This was shocking because people really need to open their eyes and reducing plastic use. As time passes this problem will only get worse.

About a month ago we finished our third unit on circuits. Along with this unit there is a project. You could probably guess what it is, making a circuit. The materials used for this project was cardboard, tinfoil, popsicle, and tape. The goal was to light up a light bulb. To do this in your circuit two pieces of tin foil have to touch together. My circuit had one piece of tinfoil on cardboard as the base and another piece of tin foil attached to cardboard held by a rubber band. If you pushed down on the cardboard with tin foil it would touch the base of the circuit and the light, connected to the tin foil on the base, would light up.

Recently in Technology we watched a movie about the boys who went into a cave with their soccer coach and got stuck inside for more than two weeks. This incident occurred in late June of 2018 and was talked about all over the world. To me the most shocking part about this is that all of the boys were alive and didn’t sustain severe injuries. Also the rescue took lots of time to figure out how to do it safely. This was the second movie we have watched in Tech and I thought that it was the most interesting.