Wind Tunnels and Airplanes

The students have just finished their commercial projects, and we have gone through viewing day. Viewing day is a day where all the student’s commercials get aired, and the students get to sit back, relax, and enjoy the outcome of their hard work.

Next, students will be learning about how flight in the atmosphere works. They will learn the reason we use wind tunnels, and actually get to see our classroom wind tunnel in practice! The knowledge over the next few weeks that students will gain about flight, wings, and air foils, will help them as we approach our final project: The Water Bottle Rockets.

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Intro to Autodesk Inventor

The students have begun learning about our 3d modeling software, Autodesk Inventor! The students
are working their way from beginning fundamentals, to more and more complex skills. Over the next few weeks the students will be building basic shapes online, to more complex shapes. This learning will take place through online Youtube tutorials.

Once students have the basic skills down, the students will begin creating real life objects. These become more difficult because students are no longer following directions on how to build something – they must figure out how to create these objects themselves! These skills will help the students as they move towards our final project of the year in May!

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Designing Cities of the Future

The students are about to begin their next design. This design is an interesting one, because students will begin by working individually, but when they began actually creating their design, they will be

A student's beginning design.

working in groups. This is the first project the students will be working in groups for, and it will be interesting to see where their collaboration skills are at.

The students will be creating a future city. The goal of this new design is to identify where current cities have problems (traffic, pollution, etc.), and how a well-planned city of the future could fix these issues. I am very interested to see what the students are able to come up with in their designs!

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Beginning Programming

Since winter break, the students have been learning about building mechanisms and complex machines. Now, things get even more challenging.

The students are soon going to begin learning how to program. This starts with theory work (computers need to be told exactly what to do), and then moves to simple programs on the computer, such as turning a light on and off, or starting a motor.

However, once the students have mastered the basics of computer programming, and apply their knowledge of mechanisms and machines, the possibilities in class are endless.

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