Apollo First Semester

9/15/2015

Today, I uploaded my JPL Invention Challenge machine design and fixed/updated my website.

9/16/2015

Today, we had the 1 Million or Math Wednesday Challenge.

9/17/2015

Today, we finished up the Wednesday Challenge and came in glorious 4th place.Here are the results.

9/28/2015

Today, we went over the class grades as well as touch it up some.Here are the grades.

Here are some photos of the sketchup design done by Kevin S

9/29/2015

Today, I worked on my webside and found a Lazerdisc with a reader at lunch. It still worked despite a chip off of one of the sides.

9/30/2015

Today, we did the Marble Mover wednesday challenge.

10/3/2015

Today,I went to see "The Martian" for my birthday with Connor and a few other friends.

10/5/2015

Today was my birthday and I celebrated it by trying to stop Alvin and Nick from fighting over period 4's testing steps.

10/6/2015

Today, Ian and I used the softball thrower to test period 4's design concept. Their design revolves around the similar idea of the two wheeled pitching machine concept, so we borrowed one on campus.

10/7/2015

Today, we began the official tests of the shooter and Nick recorded the results. The tests went well and we got to shoot the ball once at 70 mph altough the average hits were around 20 to 25 mph

10/8/2015

Today, Ian,Nick,and I worked to decide our archbridge design, we went with last years idea of styrafoam blocks cut out and placed in a guide to help assemble them

10/9/2015

Today was the archbridge, the foam bridge failed, so we made it out of Jenga blocks. We were disqualified.

Here are the results.

Today, I worked on my website some and filled up the Marble Mover challenge from yesterday.

10/12/2015

Today, we saw our grades and all of the veterans but Cole and Kevin were removed from the JPL Challenge. On a brighter note, I passed my drivers test and got my licence first try.

10/13/2015

Today, I worked on catching up on my website tried to figure out why Dr Neat said that it was never updated since last year.

10/14/2015

Today, Ian and I were placed incharge of collecting the wednesday challenge forms about the cat/dog machine.