Robotics class is challenging, but fun. There are a lot of steps you need to do, but it will all be worth it in the end when you get to see how your robot turned out. The steps are sometimes easy, but complicated at the same time. For example, when you start off by screwing a screw onto a metal limb, it may seem easy but there are all kinds of metal limbs, and there are even more screws that most of the time, look alike. While in robotics class, you have to have a partner, and my partner is one of my friends. We sometimes get confused but it's fun because wed learn on the way. So far everyone has started there robot and about two groups are almost finished. The teamwork me and my partner have can be complicated because sometimes we don't agree with how we should do things and sometimes we both get frustrated and give up however, I would not ask for another partner because even though we don't agree sometimes, we always work something out and come up with an agreement. Sometimes I get side tracked by looking and focusing on other people's project so I can make better use of my time by staying focused on my project and when I need help, ask the teacher but in the process of waiting, I can still try to figure out how to do it myself. When I get frustrated because things don't work out the way I wanted it to go, I can talk with my partner instead of giving up and we can come up with solutions on how to work on our project. I think robotics is very important because most students at other schools don't get the opportunity to have college credit. I also think that robotics is important because students that want to do things like this in the future, will basically already have a head start. Robotics has benefited us by giving us college credit so we can have a head start in college. I could not see myself going into this field but, making a robot is still fun and it will be worth it because in the end, I get college credit and I will be able to tell people that in the 9th grade, I built a robot.
~Cat
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Monday, October 5, 2015
Ingenuity Fest
The Ingenuity Fest is a festival of art and technology. They are finding and celebrating people that like to explore an create. I don't know too much about this fest because i am just now finding out about it but what i can tell you is that the people going are going to need to sit, that's why we are making chairs out of pallets. I can find out more about this fest by looking up information on there website @ingenuitycleveland.com . The Ingenuity Fest helps our city because they create things for our city and it gives people things to do. We-Design Lab-fit into what the Ingenuity Fest is all about because we are just like the people of the city and we are interested in the things the Fest has to provide just like the rest of Cleveland. We also fit in with what the Fest is all about because we are making the chairs for the people to sit in at the fest. What the students need to know and understand about how to make a great design is that "teamwork makes the dream work", meaning that if people act childish and don't want to participate with one another, we won't get things done, however, if people work together and put all the pettiness behind them, we can get the job done. The most exciting thing about building a stage and chairs for the fest is that I get to see people's faces when they realize that they have a place to sit. It's also exciting to see my classmate's reactions to a job well done. I am not worried nor concerned about anything because I believe in my classmates and myself, and I feel that nothing can go wrong if we continue to work together and stay positive. An obstacle we were facing was that everyone clashed heads when we were trying to figure out an idea for how to set up the pallets. We overcame that obstacle however and instead of just taking one idea from a student, we put all of our ideas together and came up with something that was almost PERFECT to everyone's eyes. One thought that I have about the project is how does the Ingenuity Festival look because I won't get to go, and hopefully, someone will take pictures for me of everyone sitting on the pallets that we made (I won't be there not because I wasn't chosen, but because I have to go somewhere else).
~Cat
~Cat
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