magnets do not make good pets.

today i worked with kayla and T-Mike on magnets and rulers
we were to make a riffel useing a ruler tape magnets and mettle balls
we piut two ball on a magnet taped to a ruler
we shot a ball at the end of the ruler and on the other side a ball fell off. it was pretty neat
i am not sure why i will need to know this for M2M but i will keep it in my mind just incase

the profesional wire stripper...

today i worked with louisa and lucy. we worke on motors and watched a video about makeing a vacuem. first we made a straw that sukup a needle to the center to da that we had to rap wire arond the straw and strip the wires at the end. then we put the to ends to a magnet and put the needin the opening of the staw. it was sucked in to the middle of the straw i am wondering what the effect would be if we used a bigger straw and a bigger magnet.

Drop it like its hot Part 2

today was the day before the M2M mini. and so everyone form our team was working on final touches. me and rose got the parachute to fly pretty strait by swing it and crumpleing it. it worked pretty well. i hope evrything wrking for friday!!!

Drop it like its HOT.

Today me and my partner rose work on our parachute for mini M2M. we tryed alot of differerent parachutes in lots of different sizes. But we decided to still with our original parachute. its just the right size and has a perfect hole at the top. we are still working on the accuracy of our parachute because we havent figuered out how to make it go perfectly strait we figuered out that if we crinkle it up and then drop t the parachute will open at the last minute and it will go a little bit straiter.

Launching from the Moon

My partner and I worked on launching from the moon lab. We had to launch a straw and objects up a string using a balloon. We didn't accomplish our task but we leaned more about how every action has an equal and opposite reaction because te balloon forced air out one way and it moved the opposite direction. We think this is important for M2M because we will need to know a lot about pressure and forcing air to move things.

Lego Robotics

in this lab i worked with rose and kimmy to make a lego robot go through a gate made out of lego it was very tricky to get all the timeing right but we figuered out that if we increase just the time or the speed it will work better. in the end we got it to work and go through the gate but it took about five trys and each time we had to adjust someting little to make it work.

Building stuff is not my forte!!!

Today in labs i worked with Gabby and Sam. we had to build eachothers lego things with the pieces we were given. it was very challenging i had to help sam build hers and gabby helped me build mine and sam helped gabby build hers. we had to figureout the best way to communicate with eachother without giving the wrong directions. at the end we were a little bit off so we couldn't put them together. in mission to mars i am sure we will have to build something out of the materials we have and with someone telling (not showing) us to do.

Lab #2

Today for my second lab I worked with Maddy. We were instructed to create a parachute that could stay in the air while having a hair dryer blowing under it. At first we made a very small parachute with small strings, but the object were trying to lift was to heavy and the hair dryer could no hold it up. we decided to make a bigger parachute with londer strings, because the little one was not catching the air well enough. The bigger one worked really well and was really steady. we tryed it of of the stairs for a longer fall and it flew perfectly with a few minor movments side to side. so we diceded to cut a small hole in the top to see if we could make it perfectly smooth. it worked. unfortunatly we ran out of time. I would have liked to have made more parachutes and try different technics to make them fly smoother like making a bigger whole.

Lab #1

Today for my first lab i worked with Louisa and Madiera. our task was to build a robot that could piick up a moon rock/film canister. while we were building it we got very confused in the beginnig we didnt really know what to do or how to put the pieces together. but we soon figured it out it was really fun piecing all of the things together. i am wondering if this has anything to do with mision to mars. i am sure that in someway it does but i dont know if we will be building any robots on the ship.

For my bernoulli's law demo i used the example of the ocean and how when the wind blows across the ocean it causes the ocean to move towards the low pressure that is being caused. the wind is was causes the ripples and waves in the ocean.