Building Day 5

My group had to once again start over decorating. After a few initial disagreements, we decided upon making the track look like water. The biggest problem that arises is the tissue paper interfering with the marble's movement. We have yet to put on the final decorations, such as the iconic small world dolls, but so far, so good!

Building Day #5

Today we were very successful in working. We decorated the track by setting down tissue paper to cover the tape. Then, we printed out pictures of athletes that represent for Nike. By next class we should be done.

Building Day 4

Today we accomplished so much! Our roller coaster some how fell apart over the weekend, which was definitely a let down, but we were able to rebuild it in a better way, recalculate all of our math and science, and even make our sign. It shows that when you work together, you are able to do so much in so little time!! Get ready for he candy coaster!

By Fiona

Building Day 5

Today we decorated the main building and Chris and Rylan started making more robots and tanks. Jake also started hot glueing down the robots and zombies. Alex brought in a plane and we destroyed it to make look like it crashed. I also started to make holes in several buildings, and Alex started to cover up the cardboard with some construction paper. We also added humans into the war on the side of the robots(obviously). We are very excited next class when we will all bring in little army men and probably some more zombies. We feel like we are ready for Open House(even though we are not done. Here is a picture of our coaster so far.

Building Day 6

Today our group are starting to decorate our. C.E.E Screamin'. In the begging of our class we went start to our roller coaster and started to work on it. During our class before we had some issues, but we fixed them. 

Building day 3

Today, we were very efficient. First, we added the finishing touches to our roller coaster, Rainbow Road Extreme. After our crazy coaster was finish we started doing the math of our master piece. We figured out our velocity, acceleration, and potential energy. I am really proud of how our roller coaster slows down at the end. 

Best, 

Kit, Robert, Ethan F., and Philip

 

Building Day #3

Our team completed our design for our track, and then we started decorating. Today, we made a little figure of sponge bob and we are confident that people will like our overall coaster. To add decorations that looked like kelp, we tore green tissue paper to make it look like seaweed. So far our team has worked amazingly well together and love this project so far. Here is a photo of our sponge bob!

Building Day 2

Today, we measured the velocity, or speed of the marble on our track by solving many complex math equations and doing a few timed test runs. The formula we used was V=d/T. We first figured out the distance by measuring the track. Then, for the time, we took a stop watch and timed our marble racing down the track. We recorded three separate times, found the average, and received the time, or T. After doing all the needed calculations and experiments, my team figured out that the marble will start to slow down at 0.65 seconds. It was a lot of fun along with a good day's work.

Exploration day

Roller coaster (exploration day)

We experimented with many tracks. It was hard to make them work but we finally did. It was incredible!  It was a really fun experience, it was hard, but when we finally got it to work, it was really rewarding.

Reflection 3 (Group Z) Celtics

Today we finished the project. We got rid of the clay, because it got hard and started to fall off. We planned to build a home when we started, but we decided to build an asylum instead because the house didn't look especially beautiful. For some supplemental support, 4 nails were added, which caused us to have to pay two thousand more dollars. Overall, it wansn't the prettiest, but it still turned out pretty good.

The Insane Asylum :)

Knicks (group 3) reflection #3

Today our building , Madison Square Garden, is complete! We are putting the finishing touches on our building. When we came in this morning our building was missing a roof and needed to be sturdier. We have accomplished all of our goals and completed our building. We are ready to test!!

Reflection #3 Group Z Lakers

Today, we pretty much finished up our building. We painted the whole thing white, and attached the roof. We have 700 dollars left, so we might do a little bit of touch up. All of us are very content with the looks of our building and it has survived our tests very well. We have made a lot of progress.

Reflection #3 ( spurs group z)

Today we accomplished putting balsa wood on the base of sugar cubes. Hopefully we will get the plexi plastic on the top and paint the building if we have enough money. Our finish line is coming close. Hopefully we will finish in the time that we have! Look below to see our progress. 

The Heat (group Z) reflection #3

In the last class we got the base of our structure finished! This is what our last goal was. However, this class we want to finish the whole building. We have lined the sides and the top of the building with balsa wood, and we're going to paint it right after that.

By the end of the class we're happy to say that we finished painting and adding supports. The project was a success!