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Passion Project #1

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In English this year we are doing a passion project. To think of what I wanted to do I had to brainstorm what I enjoyed. The first thing that cam to my mind was engendering. Specifically architectural engineering. But I couldn’t do that. I already did that for my capstone project last year. So I thought up some other types of engineering, and came up with rocket and aerospace engineering. As soon as this idea came to me, I would not pick anything else. First of all I liked building with anything from bocks to just books, and I love rockets.

When I was younger I used to watch videos on rockets reaching the moon. I always watched in awe, wondering how could these rockets fly so high, and defeat gravity at extreme levels. This all I would soon find out through my passion project.

If you want to see my passion project proposal just click the link.

/https://blogs.scarsdaleschools.org/cmeschewski26/2020/0/25/passion-project-proposal/

I will be giving daily updates on my progress so stay tuned for more.

Tech Post #5 – E-Learning

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There has been a slight problem in our tech projects. The Corona Virus. The virus made it to Scarsdale last week, and the Scarsdale district had no choice but to close all schools. The following week nobody really knew what to do, most people were taking a few days off and relaxing because they thought that they were going back to school on Thursday. It turns out that is not the case, we might not even go back to school this year. This is one serious virus.

Under the circumstances we had a find a way to learn things from Mr. Calvert digitally. We first started by doing Ed puzzle. A useful platform that allows you to watch a video posted by a teacher, and answer questions on it. We also now have tech office hours so if you would like to ask Mr. Calvert a question, he will give you an answer. Sometimes we also may do a zoom meeting, this allows us to see each other face to face like face time.

Through the struggles of the virus we are still learning. Right now we are in a unit of atoms. We are learning about how small atoms are, and the pieces there made of.

So far E-learning in Tech has Ben going well!

Tech Post 4-Building our Pendant

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In tech we are creating and soldering a ring for a pendant. My Desighn is going to be like the deathly hallows from Harry Potter. It will have the circle in the middle with a line through it and a triangle on the outside. It will look something like this.

 

 

So far I have layed out my design on thick tape ,(so it will stay)  and I am ready to solder. After I am done soldering I can attach this to a chain through the jump ring on the circle. I am going to be interested to see how this pendant comes out, after all this is only my first try.