Post 8 – Vectornator

Today in tech we used vectornater once again. We made banners that Mr. Calvert will cut out for us. Mine says my name, Sofia Victoria Polak. I’m excited to see how it turns out. I will use the banner as a keychain for my backpack, since my backpack has no decorations on it. I think it will add a little something nice to it.

Post #5 – Flashlight progress

My flashlight is almost finished! The design is a black base, and the bottom and top pieces are silver. I will probably draw a flame on it. It is pretty big, but the painting process is frustrating. The black part of my flashlight keeps chipping, so i have to do a BUNCH of coats. (Which still isn’t helping.) hopefully I can get it done.

Post #4 – Projects

In tech, I have finished a few projects. Some of them are switches, a pendant, and a ring (in progress). The pendant looks like a wave. I made it for my mom, who loves the ocean. She loves the beach, ocean animals, and even the water itself. Another project was my three switches. Yesterday, we played a game with them. It was so fun! My last project, which is still in progress, is my ring. I    Am planning on putting a crystal or pretty charm on it.

Jewelry Piece

In tech we are making jelwery. My piece is a wave. This process was challenging because I had trouble making my circle and loop. Eventually, (after 4 tries or so) I finally got it. We haven’t added the middle of our pieces in yet (mine being a wave) but I am super excited to start doing that.

 

Tech post #1 – breakout

On Thursday, we had a special activity called breakout. It was almost like an escape room, but no escaping. We had to find clues to find the code to locks so we could access the key to unlock the cabinet to the safety goggles that had been locked up. It was so fun to look for clues and solve mysteries. It was challenging to unlock the locks, but once we did, it was amazing. It taught us about safety when using tools, and to work together and communicate. Overall, this project was so fun and I hope we can do it again!

The Election

The candidate I want to win is Joe Biden.

I want him to win because he has made a promise to get COVID under control, stop climate change, and help with the “Black Lives Matter” movement. He thinks all these issues need urgent attention.

Donald Trump on the other hand has not done anything to fix the pandemic, and has said that masks are not important and it’s a waste of time to wear them. He has said racist and offensive things about Latinx and Black Americans. He has also said terrible things about women.

Maglev Train

We were working on our maglev train. A maglev train is a levitating train that has magnets on the train and track that repel. My original design was 2 ring and 3 strip magnets on the car  and 3 strip magnets on the track. This did not work because it was too heavy for our car to float. This was a problem my group and I knew we had to solve it. Then it hit us we used double layered strip magnets on our track and just 3 stip magnets on our train. This way it would be lighter and easy to make it levitate we were nervous but then… It worked! Were able to do it my group did such a good job in working hard.

I think our train worked because it was lighter and the double layer really helped because it gave it like a little boost and it was harder for the sides of the magnets to stick {good thing} this was also successful our final design was was like I said “double layered strip magnets on track and 3 strip magnets on the train.”

What I learned about the Engineering Design  Process {EDP} is the poles of magnets and work as a group and I would like to thank my teacher for teaching me everything I needed to know about magnets. I also learned how to make a maglev train and that was fun! I leaned to ask questions about the trains and how to improve it. Also about problems and how we can solve them. See you next post!!