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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GApq0DMYGjDjNmk2XpmX9XRkek7UlE0OIcUuG5vXvEo/edit?usp=sharing
This time our groups were only three people each, mine was Hailey Sena, Sophia Morrison, And me Andrew Dafnis. As a group who I haven’t worked with either of them before, we worked extremely well together. We constantly split up the work so not one person was doing all of it and everyone had something to do. This entire project we were constantly doing something even though we didn’t build something as extravagant as the roller coasters. One area I can grow as a group member is giving meaningful critique my peers work, because I feel that my critique doesn’t help some of the problems that I’m trying to fix.
While reading Fahrenheit 451 it made me think about how we as humans need to question what our society is like and what we’re doing to each other. In the book I also learned how we need to slow down from our thinking with all the technology and innovation going on. Through the regime presentations I found out how lucky we are to have a say in our government and not have one ruler controlling everything, while also spreading propaganda. I was almost forced to use humanities thinking because this project was a lot of researching and finding credible sources. We also through the project had to think about ways to communicate this information to our peers and other adults at exhibition.
In physics I learned how thermodynamics is everywhere because heat is everywhere. This made thermodynamics a lot easier to learn about because there’s so many applications of it. While creating the phase diagram we had to not only think about physics but humanities, because we needed to know this graph before we compared characters to the states of matter on the graph.Once we found the character placement it was putting what we’d been learning into words and definitions. Lastly I had to use physics thinking when building our stirling engine, when we first heated up the engine and got it to start moving we had smelled something burning and knew what it was. After we discovered this we fixed the problem and thought about why it was melting.
In engineering we had not only a lot to learn, but a lot to test and build on the stirling engines. First we got our directions on how to make the engine but ran into obstacles along the way of working around pieces not fitting. Once we got the engine working we had to test the engine, write temperatures at different parts of the engine and from that test and repeat to see how those temperatures affected the machine. This building especially required us to use engineering thinking because we had to test it and analyze what was happening to every part of the engine. Then when we weren’t satisfied with how well it worked we took it apart and rebuilt the whole thing and tested it again. Sadly it was worse but we still tried it again.
This group I feel I had a lot to offer on the building side of things. I helped a lot in this because I know how other engines work and what this one needed to work. I think I was successful in all of the learning outcomes but could improve some. I believe that I strive in collaboration, not only in this project but others too. This is because I like working with groups or helping others to understand the topics we’re on. I demonstrated collaboration not only on the building side but on the other products too. I can definitely grow in content knowledge because for some of the topics I was shaky on the answers I gave. One place I wasn’t always sure what I was talking about was the function of the stirling engine and it’s modern ways it’s used.