When I first started it was fun going around my basement trying to find stuff to use in my project. The hard part was trying to figure out how it was going to all go together. I learned a lot about how simple machines work and how one simple tweak can change the whole outcome. I thought putting the video together was easy I liked putting music and special effects in the video
If you want to see my video click here
For my capstone project my main idea is how has the three point line in basketball evolved over the years and how has it changed the game.
My 5 sub questions are why did they add the three point line into the game, how did fans and players react when the three point line was added, how has this affected scoring in game, what is the downside of the three point line and, how has this affected coaching strategies.
My dad helped me come up with these questions
I was very lucky that my dad is friends with someone whose brother is a coach at a D1 school so I can interview him.
making sub questions was hard because I kept changing my topic.
At first I had trouble thinking of what to do, but then after watching videos of other students I finally came up with an idea. The biggest challenge was making it successful. Also it was hard to find a way to use 3 simple machines. We had an inclined plane, lever and wheel and axle. Our wheel and axle was a toy car but while we were testing it before we videoed it, it wouldn’t work so we used a battery instead. what was was very frustrating is that my mom didn’t video the first success which was very upsetting because it took us a long time to do it after.