This time, we have to do interviews. In the Capstone project, there is a requirement that you have to conduct an interview. This interview has to be with an expert on your topic. I kind of felt a little nervous, this is because I’ll be reaching out to someone I totally don’t know. I know that the immigration interview is supposed to be getting you ready for the Capstone interview. But for my immigration interview, I conducted an interview with my mom, whom I know really well. This made it a little tricky because the immigration interview didn’t get all pumped up and ready for this Capstone interview. Although I was a little nervous, and in “what if” mode, I still sent my email to reach out to the person I was interviewing. She was a professor at Columbia. The interview went just fine, I got the answers I wanted and it went smoothly. As for the research, I didn’t have much problem with it, it was just a little hard sometimes to get the correct information for my topic. There weren’t many struggles with the research, I found it kind of easy, actually. There was a lot of space to fill out the slides, but I still managed to do it. I even got some slides that got another slide because there were just too many notes. Whenever I found a website or article that had a lot of good information, I’d get really excited and note everything down.

I originally wanted to interview this famous cosmologist that teaches at Stanford University. But unfortunately, he was too busy and didn’t have time to have an interview with me. But the good news was that he left me two articles that he wrote. As soon as I scanned it, I knew it would be great information. My mother helped me solve problems in finding an interviewee, and I successfully got all the information I needed. Nothing was too hard or challenging, everything was a mild difficulty. Of all of my questions, it wasn’t that hard but was difficult because there wasn’t much to ask. After the questions, you had to email(contact) an expert on your topic. I didn’t find it that hard, I still got my interview done.

The interview went pretty well. It went just as expected. Every answer to one of my interview questions was perfect and great. I learned some new things as well. Some were not exactly the same as the answers that I researched, but I know this is a professional astronomer that knows things really well, so it may be a misunderstanding on the website.

I think this was a very cool unit, it is going great so far. It is very busy though, I always seem to be working and working, especially the research. Still, everything is going great and I find it kind of fun. I look forward to making the movie. I’m also looking forward to presenting all my hard work.

Allie is an algae ball, or you might have called it a Marimo. You might be wondering what is a algae ball(Marimo). Well, let’s not go too far now! Here’s how I got that rare plant. I was in Kindergarten at that time. I had an after-school club, it’s about studying different beings. One day, when I was in that club. My teacher said that we are going to plant a plant, when we are done we will be bringing it home. We started it by making its home, in a glass jar. I took off the cap. Our teacher gave us sand. “That will be the platform of the home,” my teacher said. I pour the sand into the jar. Then, our teacher gave us marbles. “That will be some company for your Algae!” my teacher explained. Oh, I know that’s kind of weird, but it’s part of making the habitat(Not really the real habitat, just the home). After that, the teacher gave us stones, that have carved words on them! I put it in. “Stones is part of the being’s habitat. The words, like Peace, is for the plant to hope to have that opportunity to have it. That peace stone, wishes the Algae to have peace.” my teacher said. I put in the stones and put in the water. Finally, my teacher gave me the Algae! “Here’s the ALGAE!” my teacher said, excited. I carefully put it in the glass jar, it looked amazing! (it just looked like a moss ball in real life) “Oh my! Time is up! It’s time to go home! And remember to change its water every Wednesday. Good-bye!” I was sooo happy that I finally got my first pet plant.

 

Today at school, I learned about magnets! A magnet contains a force that attracts certain metals, like iron. Today, people make their own magnets. Magnets come in all sizes! Every magnet has a north pole and a south pole. A magnet is the strongest at its poles. A needle in a compass is a magnet. It always points to the north pole of Earth. When iron filings gather around a magnet is called a magnetic field. Paper clips will stick to a magnet. So will bells! 

Magnets come in all shapes and sizes! Long ago, people discovered that some metal objects would even stick to a special rock! This rock is called lodestone.Magnets have different shapes. Some of the magnets names are horseshoe magnet,U-shaped magnet,block magnets,bar magnet,disk magnets,rod magnets,and more…

Magnets are very interesting things, there are more stuff for you to find out yourself!