1. Provide a picture or the actual final product from this project.
2. Who did you get the most help from? How did you use feedback?
3. What did you make in this project? What are a few things you learned?
4. What went well in this project?
5. What struggles did you have and how did you overcome them?
6. What things did you do well concerning work ethic and what could you improve on?
7. How would you change this project?
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2. Who did you get the most help from? How did you use feedback?
3. What did you make in this project? What are a few things you learned?
4. What went well in this project?
5. What struggles did you have and how did you overcome them?
6. What things did you do well concerning work ethic and what could you improve on?
7. How would you change this project?
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2. The person I got the most help from during this project was my teacher Mr. Schwartz. Whenever I got stuck on the circuits or mechanics of my design, he was there to help me out. After he explained things to me in detail, I was able to tweak my design so that it would work properly.
3. In this project, I created a mechanical butterfly that moved its wings and lit up. The designs on the wings tie into a certain political topic that I feel strongly about. (Gun Control) I learn a whole heck of a lot more about electricity and circuits than I ever had in my LIFE. It was a little mind-boggling at first, but I soon was able to understand the project and enjoy working on it.
4. Things that went well during this project were mainly being persistent while working and keeping my cool. Often times, things wouldn't work that way I wanted them too. I just needed to keep on working and trust that I would sort things out.
5. Some struggles that I had were soldering together all of my lights. For those who don't know, soldering is taking a certain type of metal, placing it over two wires that you want to connect, and then taping the metal with an extremely hot iron that burns the air around it and makes angry hissing noises when it touches wet paper. (You must clean the iron after every solder.) It is dangerous and mildly frightening. I burned myself a few times with flecks of metal that come flying off when I cleaned the iron. And often, things would solder the way I wanted then to, I ended up having to take apart my work and redo everything again and again. However, I overcame this by using skills that work for me: being persistent and patient. As long I I continued to work, things straightened out.
6. I wasn't exactly GREAT with work ethic during this project. I procrastinated a lot and told myself that I could but things off until later. It wasn't until the third week in that I finally got all of my materials. I could improve but telling myself that things NEED to be done, and that I won't be able to fool myself into believing that work can be put off until the last minute. Also, I became frustrated with myself and my peers a lot due to stress. I need to learn how to calm myself down in those situations.
7. If there was one thing I could change about this project, I would probably add benchmarks as the when things needed to be completed. The whole process for the butterfly was basically 'finish anytime before this date.' Since we had a lot of freedom, we also felt comfortable procrastinating a bit, and that ended up being a mad spiral of stress. Even though it's good to have flexibility, it's also important to have a little bit of a structure so that students have a basic understanding of the time constraints.
3. In this project, I created a mechanical butterfly that moved its wings and lit up. The designs on the wings tie into a certain political topic that I feel strongly about. (Gun Control) I learn a whole heck of a lot more about electricity and circuits than I ever had in my LIFE. It was a little mind-boggling at first, but I soon was able to understand the project and enjoy working on it.
4. Things that went well during this project were mainly being persistent while working and keeping my cool. Often times, things wouldn't work that way I wanted them too. I just needed to keep on working and trust that I would sort things out.
5. Some struggles that I had were soldering together all of my lights. For those who don't know, soldering is taking a certain type of metal, placing it over two wires that you want to connect, and then taping the metal with an extremely hot iron that burns the air around it and makes angry hissing noises when it touches wet paper. (You must clean the iron after every solder.) It is dangerous and mildly frightening. I burned myself a few times with flecks of metal that come flying off when I cleaned the iron. And often, things would solder the way I wanted then to, I ended up having to take apart my work and redo everything again and again. However, I overcame this by using skills that work for me: being persistent and patient. As long I I continued to work, things straightened out.
6. I wasn't exactly GREAT with work ethic during this project. I procrastinated a lot and told myself that I could but things off until later. It wasn't until the third week in that I finally got all of my materials. I could improve but telling myself that things NEED to be done, and that I won't be able to fool myself into believing that work can be put off until the last minute. Also, I became frustrated with myself and my peers a lot due to stress. I need to learn how to calm myself down in those situations.
7. If there was one thing I could change about this project, I would probably add benchmarks as the when things needed to be completed. The whole process for the butterfly was basically 'finish anytime before this date.' Since we had a lot of freedom, we also felt comfortable procrastinating a bit, and that ended up being a mad spiral of stress. Even though it's good to have flexibility, it's also important to have a little bit of a structure so that students have a basic understanding of the time constraints.