Presentation

Designing a Mars Lander

I used mars yard to test and find different rovers. I had to drive 3 different types of rovers. I got to access lots of different cameras. This is my mars lander that I made in tinkercad.

 The Engineering Design Process. There are 6 actions in the design processing. The first one is Ask, the second one is imagine which is when you think up a sketch of what you’re going to do. Third one is the plan which is when you actually make the sketch. Forth one is create which is when you actually make what you’ve planned. Fifth one is when you experiment with what you have made. The last one is improve, that's when you add things to what you have already made to make it better.  

Mars rover simulation 

Today in class I learned how to record a video of me controlling my mars rover.

I learned how to manipulate the mars rover to more where I wanted it to. I could also move the camera on it, so I could see where I wanted to.  

Testing the Design using the Sphero Robots

We tested and debugged to see if the java script worked. We tested our design to make sure it could move in a square.

A bit about InSight

  It’s a mission to mars where they try to find out about the core of mars. They’re going to stick some tubes into mars to find out more about the core of mars.

They’re also using radio signals to measure the pull of mars. This will be done from one rover. 

At the moment we know nothing mars core. Hopefully this robot will show us more about it. Maybe it can give us more information about mars to make it more habitable for the future. 

Soccer challenge on python

In class I have been doing a challenge and its about soccer. In the challenge I needed to make 11 players, 1 goal keeper, 2 to 4 full back players, 2 to 4 midfield players, 2 to 4 forward players. Each of them had to be a certain color and in a certain position. All of this is done in python code and its our first time doing it.

Temple Basin Ski Trip

Walking up temple basin was one of the easier parts of the trip. The hardest part was nailing the pizza wedge. The first day we couldn't go on the rope tow if we couldn't do the pizza which was annoying because the easiest way to learn was to go up on the rope toe 
because you can just fall off. By the end of it, I could stop most of the time but never got the nut cracker so I couldn't go up to the top because we had to leave early because there was bad weather.

WPCA Trip #2 Rock Climbing and Abseiling

Hanging off a cliff by a rope, my heart pumping, and my legs shaking. I pull the rope down and abseil down the cliff. As I get close to the end there's a bit where I could not put my legs on the cliff and it felt really weird. I unclip and start to walk back up again later on, we walk back down to go rock climbing! There were 4 places for the rock climbing the first one was the easiest. The second and third one were the hardest and no one completed them. The fourth was harder than the first but still a lot easier than the second and third ones. Then after everyone had a go at the rock climbing we pack up and head back. 

Term 2 Week 1 Reflection

This week was just like any other week. On Monday we decided we were doing girls vs boys as our debate topic. I was in the team that was for the girls so that will be interesting! We also played the game of awesome, which was pretty awesome... We had our second basketball training yesterday we just went through what we were doing and I can't wait for the game later today.  We also are starting a new subject in tech today. Hopefully it's cooking but either way, I should learn something new! Over the week we have been going through our high school check list but there's still a few I need to check up on! We also got to look at our Otago problem solving results which I got 3/5 on which I was really happy about.

Sassy Foods