Blog #7

Nothing new has actually happened with this 20% project this past week. I have been exhausted by AP World History homework and studies as well as badminton late in the evening. I have thought about a possible water clock to make though. I plan to make a water clock to measure a short amount of time like less then five hours. I cannot say that I am happy with the lack of progress, but I cannot exactly tell myself that I am failing considering the amount of reading and work I have been doing. Earlier this week, something interesting was that even though we were required to study three essay prompts for World History and be prepared to write an essay for any of the three, he played with our minds and gave us all the same prompts.

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This is me every night after eating dinner. I am not used to playing a sport and being outside of house this late. Badminton relieves stress within me, especially the stress and tension between my parents and I. Unfortunately, badminton makes me so tired I come home and eat dinner and sleep. Not sure if it is majorly affecting my school work, but I feel like I have fallen behind in the 20% project compared to others.

Blog #6

Lately, I have finished all of the research I plan to do. To compliment the final products though, I will do more research. Unfortunately, I did not start any of the final  products yet. Lately, I have just felt tired and found myself coming home and sleeping right away. I feel like I could of gotten more done, but lately I just found myself needing more sleep. Something interesting I did this past week was that barely any AP World History homework was given and I used this opportunity to increase my average hours of sleep per day by about three.

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This image can relate to my progress on the 20% project recently. I have been lazy not doing the project. My sluggish behavior will have me cramming the project and have a possible effect later on like what that bottle of beer might do for the cat. I also feel tired and sleepy every time I sit on the couch, which is really preventing me from doing my homework lately.

Project Update

I researched different types of engineering and plan to make projects covering the concepts used in those types of engineering. 

I will be nervous tomorrow, especially since I am speaking to many people I normally do not hang out with. While I respect my classmates, I do not view them as close friends, with only seeing them for about an hour a day. This makes me feel unwelcome, while expecting and fearing judgement. Additionally, I am still unsure of exactly what my final product is going to be, while only sure of what categories the projects will fall under. I feel that going first will alleviate the stress, but it also takes a lot of courage to volunteer first. Also, being among my fellow genius classmates, it is safe to predict that there will be confident volunteers. I believe that I will have nearly no confidence and that I will struggle trying to remember what I want to say. Public speaking is not one of my strong suits. Here are the main websites that I found my information and research from:

http://constructionmanagementdegree.org/blog/2010/100-awesome-engineering-projects-for-kids/

http://www.aboriginalaccess.ca/

http://engineeringfields.net/

More Research

Since blog entry #1 and #2, I have researched the different types of engineering and how it affects our daily life, which in turn would influence my final product. I found two useful websites, where the websites are hands on and show you how one could relate their daily lives to engineering. One website is: http://constructionmanagementdegree.org/blog/2010/100-awesome-engineering-projects-for-kids/, providing various ideas of fun projects to explain concepts of engineering. From my last blog, I stated that I was struggling to find a final product for the 20% project. I have been considering making many smaller final projects to cover more fields of engineering. This website gave me many ideas of final products that I could do by myself. The other website is: http://www.aboriginalaccess.ca/ , which is an organization trying to help expose engineering to people of all ages. The website contains many features and is fully-loaded with information. Information on this website includes in-depth detail about different types of engineering and learning modules to help people visualize the concepts of engineering better. The website also notify and recognizes many successful people in that certain field of engineering and also displays a list of colleges that provide excellent programs within that field of engineering.