Month: March 2022

Immigration Blog Post

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Immigration,

I think this project was an interesting one. I had to interview an adult that was an immigrant and they had to share their immigration stories. I decided to interview my father, Yogesh Mishra because he is an immigrant and it would be easy to do the video of the interview. I had to prepare 15 questions for my immigrant to answer. The questions had to be good ones. A bad question would be, “Are you an Immigrant?”. A good question would be like, Describe how the traveling experience from your home country to the United States Of America. Then I had to interview him in person recording him as well. Overall this is was an amazing project

Rube Goldberg Reflection #2

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Rube Goldberg,

My overall experience designing a Rube Goldberg machine was an interesting one. First, I had to reserch so I can get some ideas. After watching a couple YouTube videos, I was able to get an idea. I had to find the materials in my house for that idea. There were some challenges, but in the end, there were solutions to challenges. Then the big day came, I had built the machine and I was very surprised that after only 8 tries I got a successful run of the machine. For many people, it takes hours and hours for the machine to work. I barely even made a change. The only thing I changed was I swapped balls from step 1 to step 3. The ball in step 3 worked because the ball had a different weight. I learned that sometimes in life, a project may be easier than you think. If your sketch is good, you will get a good start. My experience making the video was a good one as well. I made everything look like my audience was looking at the machine and not the background items in my house.

My sketch

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Video Information:

Director: Winston

Filmer: Mom

Device filmed on: iPhone 13

House filmed in: 332 Heathcote Road, Scarsdale NY

Builder: Winston

Co Builder: Mom

Video Link: https://youtu.be/oPny1wnULBA

My Reflection On Argument Debate

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Argument debate,

I think this project was a very exciting one! I think I really did well on presenting the claim my teacher selected me to do. Since I was in the plastic bags group, the debate statement was “Should Plastic Bags Be Banned?” Personally, I think that plastic bags should be banned even though my teacher put me on the “we should not ban plastic bags side”. I was not that happy that I got put in that group but I just decided to live with it. I did all the research that I can on both sides, Side A, which was we should not ban side, and side B, which was we should ban side. After lots of research, I finally got my reasons. I was person A in the debate, on side A which was “We should not ban plastic bags”. I had to write the introduction and my second reason as well as counter person D from side B, which was “We should ban plastic bags”. After writing a good introduction and doing my best at countering and saying the second reason, I thought I could do it in the real debate. The day came and I did my best I can. I think that this was an interesting project even though I got picked on the side I never wanted.