The first day, I went with Mr. Miller and was introduced to the workshop. There he showed us many tools including a drillpress, metal sander, band saw, welder, and materials we would be using later on in the year. Mr Miller expressed that saftey is key for working in the shop. Many tools can hurt you instantly and cause serious harm.

We started our first Wednesday Challenge. The class' project was to make a spaghetti bridge with dried spaghetti and woodglue. My team is Jacob, Christian, and Jess. Our design is to make a triangular prism with tiny pieces of pasta going laterally across it. Unlike most Wendnesday Projects, the spaghetti bridge is going to take our groups six days. They are usually one day, but this one requires more thinking. On Thursday we started back up on our bridge. we came up with more ideas and are starting to build our first bridge.

Today we continued to work in our bridge. My group continued to make our first bridge by glueing more spaghetti sticks together.

On Friday, we started to learn how to make our website. I am not sure how I will make everything after looking at a really good example.

On Monday, we continued to make our websites. Since my computer was mixed up with someone elses, i had to get e new one. Dr. neat didn't have any at the time so I used his and helped demonstrate more on how to create our website. I am now labtop number 2.

Tuesday, the next day, we continued working on our websites. I was worling on typing more and editing my website.

Wednesday, our groups continued making the spaghetti bridge. Some parts of our brigde got cracked so our team is regluing it. Also, we started working on the next prototype for the Wednesday project. Our design is to have long strands of spaghetti going across in a sort of spiderweb formation.

Today I learned how to put my website up on th web. It took a while because there were many others in the class doing that

I experienced sketch-up today and learned how to export a picture. The picture we tried to export was a skeleton. Not a solid image.

Today we learned more about the JPL Invention challege. Mr. Wilton, sat in and watched us learn more about the JPL IC. HE works for making movie cameras and other machines to film movies. He has won two academy awards for that. This is his webpage:
Mr. Wilton's Website

Today we did touch ups on our website. I am catching up and trying to complete everything that is needed. I only need to have pics of the pasta bridge which I don't know how to put on. Other wise I need to find a backround for my website. Lastly, I need to put everything up on Filezilla.

We continued to work on bridges and built our final one that would be tested for tomorrow. We went with the design that we last used with the spaghettis going across diagnally. Spahetti bridge challenge form: Spaghetti Bridge Wednesday Challege form

toda we tested our bridge and held a a lot of water compared to the bridge's weight. After we hurried to build another bridge for te competition tomorrow. I think our bridge needs another day to have its glue dried.

Today was the big day. It is a half day and we are testing our bridegs to see how much they can hold. Our bridge held a total of 43 grams and weiged 38... not so good. I was right about our bridge and it needing more time to dry. Oh well, what can you do.

Today we finished the wednesday challenge forms. We put those up onto our websites. That is all we did since people got stuck with loggins.

I am excited fpr my second wenesday challenge! Our challenge is to design a robot that can tell the difference between a dog and a cat without harming it. We have three sentences to describe our robot. Here is the link to the Wednesday challenge form.
Robot Design WC
Thurday 9-8-16

So today we had Mr. Wilton come in today and look at the JPL invention challenges to see where they were at and what they need to work on.

Sketch up is pretty cool. Today we designed our own little city on it. Dr Neat compliment me on my statagy of building it when I had little rectangles drawn out first and then pulled them up into 3D images.

Wednesday challenge day!!! Our challenge was to make a wooden block to as close as 2 inches as possible with only hand tools. Our main problem was cutting straight so we clamped a piece of metal to our little block. Then we had cut too much off. Thanfully we have tomorrow to work on it and start over with another block.

Today everybody logged onto the website for the saftey instructions for being in the workshop. trouble because I accidentally clicked on the wrong link. After a while, Mr. Miller helped me out and guided me to the right place.

Today we had a guest speaker from skillify! I have already met her since she was in my chemistry class last week. After she presented, we had a little time to work on our websites.

WEEK 13

Monday 10/24/16
Today we talked about the websites and about some people who hadn't updated it along with the Straw WC. I was one of the people who didn't have my website updated at all for a couple reasons. After we talkied about the groups for the Wesdy Challenge. It concluded to be that a smaller group would work better than a large group. Thankfully I am now able to work on my website at home.
Lesson Learned: Always update your website whenever you can.

Here are all the picture that were upposed to go into my last website update.

Chocolate Bar _________________Stairway To Heaven
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Playing Card______________________________Pencil
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Tuesday 10/25/16
Today we posted the WC of the Straws. Click here to see it. After, I started a sketch up of a Lego Duplo block. It is on 10/27/16 entry. I am still really bummed about the website and not being able to upload it.

Wednesday 10/26/16
Today we have once again, A WEDNESDAY CHALLENGE!!! our challenge was to estimate how many pieces of candy corn are on Dr. Neat's 8.5 by 11 piece of paper. WE didn't win this challenge, and I am still a bit butthurt about it, although I had some fun with it. Here is my WC Form.
Candy Corn WC

Thursday 10/27/16
Today I continued on the LEGO Duplo block Sketch up. It was pretty easy to make. I alo made the WC Form for the Wednesday Challenge for yesterday. Then I worked on my website for the rest of the period


Friday 10/28/16
You guessed it!!! Today we had Mr. Wilton come in once again to talk to the JPL Group. Some Groups were a bit behind, so they are now working really hard to get everything done before the challenge day. Which is in one month! The time has really gone by fast so far with this school year.


WEEK 14

Monday 10/31/16
Today is Halloween!!! Dr. Neat scared some kids today by having a robot be activated by motion sense! nIt was very funny. After that he showed us his bridge presentation, and how we would be doing one with a partner. My partner for this is John. He is cool. His website is here. We are going to be doing the Royal Gorge Bridge in Colorado. This is what it looks like.



Tuesday 11/1/16
Toooooday is a new month, NOVEMBER! We are working on sketchup today of the Lego Block. I already did that so instead I worked on the bridge and website. The picture of the Lego is above on the date 10/27/16.

Wednesday 11/2/16
Today we had a Wednesday Challenge! I was a judge so I helped by going around to tables while they were making thier sketchups of the letter "E." Then I would tell David to come and retrieve thier sketchup. That was basically it since we wouldn't have enough time to redistribute the sketchups for the other team. The results are later on in the website but here is the WC Form.
Letter E WC

Thursday 11/3/16
Today we continued the WC. I was in charge of cutting pieces of carboard and then handing out the pieces for groups to construct the letter. I thinks it's really cool to be a judge.

Friday 11/4/16
Today we had the JPL people come in and show their machines to us. We watched them try and get the most amount of water in the target. Other thatn that we just worked on our websites.


WEEK 15

Monday 11/7/16
Today we went over grades and websites. I got a perfect score on it and am very happy. Thats about it. Then we worked on our websites

Tuesday 11/8/16
Today we worked on the websites

Wednseday 11/9/16
Today was the Wednesday challenge. The challenge of today was to see if two weights, one was one kilogram, and the other was unkown. We had to decide if the objects were the same weight. here is the WC form.
Weights WC

Thursday 11/10/16
Today we let the groups finish up the Es by making their designs from another group out of cardboard. I helped out by cutting pieces of cardboard for the groups to create their Es. Then we took the Es and tried to score them but we didn't have time to.

Friday 11/11/16
Today the JPLers came in and they talked about their inventions to us. Then Mr. Wilton asked questions and shared his opinion on their projects. I also worked on my website a bit. Thats all.


WEEK 16

Monday 11/14/16
Today we had a day to work on our websites, but I had to finish judging the E's from two weeks ago. It took a fair amount of time to do but we finished. Here is the link to the results. E Final Results

Tuesday 11/15/16
Today I went into the shop with Mr. Miller and the original group for the safety test to make something. Literally, we were going to learn(since it is the best way to) by making what ever we wanted wanted, just in a reasonable size. Our group decided on making a 1 foot by 8 inch by 4 inch box with a top on it along with a drawer on the bottom. We only have little sketches of it so here is my very own sketch up of it.


Wednesday 11/16/16
Today was a Wednesday challenge!!! Our task was to have to pieces of metal and haev them stuck together with some adhesive and see who's would hold the most water. My group's choice was to use super glue as our adhesive. We had also though about something that none of the other groups had thought about: filing the surfaces of both pieces of metal and then putting on the glue. That would increase the suface area tension. Then we tested it and it held 8 lb.s. It could hold more it was just that we needed to have a more controlled way to handle the water so it wouldn't spill when the two pieces fell apart. This was also the case for many other groups so we will continue tomorrow.

Thursday 11/17/16
Today we are working on our websites. I am going to work on the Wednesday challenge form for the Wednesday Challenge we did yesterday. Sadly we aren't continuing the wednesda challenge becasue the sheer force to break apart the two pieces of metal with the super glue on it was about 111 lbs. Here is the WC form
Sheer Force WC

Friday 11/18/16
Today I finished up my WC worksheet form and then uploaded my website. After that, the JPL Crew showed us their final designs. We went outside to see them in action since the Challenge day is tomorrow. Yeah that's about it.


WEEK 16

Monday 11/28/16
Today we went onto sketch-up and learned how to rotate a shape or something. Then we remade our arch bridge in sketch-up. Here it is.



Tuesday 11/29/16
Today we had the JPL team talk to us about the JPL invention challenge. One group got disqualified, and then one had a little problem which led them to fail, and another group lost a too much water so they got a penalty for 15 seconds on their original time.

Wednesday 11/30/16
Today we started another wednesday challenge!!! Our challenge is to build the tallest structure out of marshmellos, pretzel sticks, and graham crackers. We only made the sketch up today but tomorrow we will continue it. Here is the WC Form
Tower WC

Thursday 12/1/16
Today we finished up the wednesday challenge. We tried to make the structure that another group gave to us but it failed since it was instructed in a weird way. Here is their structure and here is the picture.



Friday 12/2/16
Today we worked on our websites and then we watched some Mythbusters!!! I finished almost what I needed to do on my website. I only needed to have the real life pictures but I didn't email myself it before.