team green lights up 3 bulbs with their windmill...
Thursday, October 6, 2011
High On Wind Measurement
From high on the garage, the students can see the local wind generator from the Holy Name High School.
Back in class we wire the circuit board and light the lights!
Friday, September 30, 2011
Wind Data beginning
We actually did get our initial wind data. An outside day to begin as team green has the parking lot to measure.
Team awesome gets to climb the stairs to the top of the parking garage for measurements.
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The flag was moving so should our anemometers!We are encouraging students to do their own blog team Green is at the beginning stages for this at http://mamsteamgreen.blogspot.com/
We will return again next time we have a block to get more data!
Thursday, September 29, 2011
We hope to begin mapping
Today we hope to begin mapping wind speeds outside. Obviously it depends upon the rain holding off. As we fill out the review of what we have done we notice how design has taken over our work and we hope to include other factors as well. Although the design is obviously the student love. They love to tinker to make it better, or even just make it work!
Awesome is coming along! Look at their design and then it is working. Now we need data collection!
And team green has decided to make their design more rigid to be able to control angles of the blade better so they cut Balsa wood and tried again.
Awesome is coming along! Look at their design and then it is working. Now we need data collection!
Off to measure Wind Speed, we hope!
Monday, September 26, 2011
Another Week
We are beginning another week!
Lets look at the old
The current:
Team Awesome's idea which they are trying to carry out is an iteration. Remember they were doing a vertical axis design when we began.
Meanwhile Team Green appears to have it together, there design is based on a combination of new and old;
And the teachers are just letting the design process work, posting and publicizing the successes and lack there of, for all to see. Our blogging skills improving.
We made the school newsletter as well! Check out the newsletter .
Lets look at the old
The current:
Team Awesome's idea which they are trying to carry out is an iteration. Remember they were doing a vertical axis design when we began.
And the teachers are just letting the design process work, posting and publicizing the successes and lack there of, for all to see. Our blogging skills improving.
We made the school newsletter as well! Check out the newsletter .
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Data is here!!!
We finally got some good initial data from team green.
Students are also beginning to use the Nspires as more then data collection devices as they collect and manipulate their data. Here Rohit does some work within lists and spreadsheets.
And in order to add some competition to the group the teachers decided to also compete.
Students push to demonstrate their work. Team Green seems to have it!
Students are also beginning to use the Nspires as more then data collection devices as they collect and manipulate their data. Here Rohit does some work within lists and spreadsheets.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Week 3 Begins
As we begin our next week;
It is truly amazing that the engineering design process just evolves out of working on a problem.
Log books are created to document initial work.
This leads of course to more testing
We still need some real data collection and connections to local sites to visit. To help with this students will be assigned "their own" NSpires today.
It is truly amazing that the engineering design process just evolves out of working on a problem.
Log books are created to document initial work.
This documentation leads the students back to some original documentation.
This leads students to more construction
We still need some real data collection and connections to local sites to visit. To help with this students will be assigned "their own" NSpires today.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
We Begin Week 2
Students in class are really getting into the construction phase of things after choosing up their teams and direction of their projects.
Team Amazing (Aniket, Osi, Mark) is here with their vertical axis windmill model.
Team Green (Joe, Rohit, Patrick) is here with their Horizontal axis windmill model.
Class is progressing during the elective block. They even began some initial testing using their models and a fan to see that things "really worked" and connecting sensors to a TI NSpire.
NEXT: we hope to actually collect some real data!
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