Presentation

We started the class by finishing the education kills creativity video. Then, Geoffrey, Winnie and Patrick did their prezi presentation and Jessica, Angel and I went after them. Honestly, the presentations were really alike.

-Tiffany

Presentation

Today's class was short since it was a Friday. We basically talked about the presentation we had to do on the ping pong launcher, took a look at everyone's launchers and watched a video about how education kills creativity.

-Tiffany

Launch

After half an hour of more modifying, we finally launched the ping pong balls in Applied Skills. Every group got one test shot and three actual shots. My group got 15 feet for all the tries which wasn't very good but not that bad either.

-Tiffany

Modifying

Today was supposed to be just for modifying our launchers but since ours didn't really worked. We rebuilt another model that's a lot simplier. Too bad it doesn't launch that far. We did the one we found on YouTube with the double paper clip and elastic band and added some stuff to it to make it better.

-Tiffany

Building

We finally built the trebuchet today. The trebuchet didn't exactly turn out as we planned it to be. The wood was to hard to penetrate through and the foam was too weak to hold much. Since we had to change so much materials, the finished product wasn't that good. In fact, it doesn't launch very far. Thankfully, we have another period to modify it and make it better.

-Tiffany

Last Draft

Today is the last day for us to finalize our drawings before building the ping pong ball launchers next class. Jessica and I talked a little about the materials in the design while Angel finished the orthographic drawing. All we need to do now is add the measurements into the drawings and we'll be done.

-Tiffany

Sketching

We really didn't spend much time on the sketches today. Instead, Mr. Zhuang talked about how simple and easy sketches are to draw versues spending a longer period of time drawing a sketch on the computer with programs like Google Sketchup.

-Tiffany