Final Blog Post

This Hooulu ia Kamehameha project was something different for me. At first, I was very scared at the difficulty of this project and the amount of stress I would have trying to meet all of these deadlines. However, as the quarter went on, it was a big relief to me of how my group was on it and knew what we wanted to do. I think doing this project was a great idea, especially because we get to improve our school for the years to come. It doesn't hurt to make this school a better place, and with several groups working on different problems, we're bound to make a difference. A lot of things went well for our project. First of all, we decided on our problem AND solution early on, which to me is the hardest part of the project. Along the whole way, we were meeting our deadlines and knew what we were doing. There's nothing that really happened that strayed from the plan, but there was one small problem we encountered. It was just brainstorming on the actual design of the stand because we couldn't find an affordable, decent sized stand available to purchase. However, this problem was immediately resolved with the help of Lehua's dad because he let us use his saw horse. From this project, one of the most important skills I have aquired is the ability to work with my peers. At first I wasn't really comfortable working with Lehua and Pono, but I got to know them and learned how to work and compromise with them. This was vital so we could effectively communicate. This project wasn't too strenuous nor easy, so there's nothing I could really think of right now to improve it. Looking at the big picture, this project was for Physics class. Honestly, I didn't feel like I was working on Physics at all, or anything really related to science in general, but that's okay because we made a positive impact in our school!

Final BlogPost (:

Overall, I felt that this project turned out really well. All groups were able to successfully identify a problem they wanted to create a solution for and worked toward implementing it. Things that went well for our group was quickly proposing a problem we wanted to create a solution for, brainstorming a simple solution that we believed could still make a large impact, and implementing ideas and coming out with positive feedback. To attain our final victory, we also encountered difficulties along the way. We didn‘t plan on not being able to purchase a A-Frame Sign Stand, but luckily we were able to compensate for that with my dad To attain our final victory, we also encountered difficulties along the way. We didn‘t plan on not being able to purchase a A-Frame Sign Stand, but luckily we were able to compensate for that with my dad‘s sawhorse. Although our solution wasn‘t extremely complex or involved many materials, my group still found our project to be highly effective. By participating in this project, I learned that sometimes the smallest ideas could have the biggest impact. I also learned that cooperating gets the job done quickly while dictating gets you nowhere. In the future, I would like to see this activity require more students to be successful in their solutions rather than just giving it a try. This may be a little too much to ask for, but I believe the students of Kamehameha have the potential to find a working solution to campus problems. I felt that we were actually doing science because as Mr. Blake says, “Physics is everywhere”. Therefore, I felt that we were still working from a physics point of view throughout our entire process.

Personal blog post

I personally thought the project was a great thing to do. It helped us to problem solve better together as a group and was an awesome experience. I think we worked well together as a team and i think our project was a success. We saw a need within the school that needed to be solved, and we did it! i also think that jezus, lehua and i worked really hard. I thought it was good that we all worked hard because that way not one person was doing all the work. we did not plan on a bunch of things happening. During the process we changed the design of the sign several times. Also, our sign fell down and all the inserts flew out. this called for some change of plans, but it all worked out in the end. I learned how to work in a group, i also learned ways of problem solving. I think this is a great activity that does not need to be changed in any way. I didnt even think we were doing science until i had to analyze the physics relation to my project. I enjoyed it more because i did not know we were doing school work, it just felt like we were doing a senior project or something. I thought this was an awesome project and i hope that every senior at school gets to do this.

weekends blog post

So on friday we had our presentations. I thought we were going to do worst, so thats a good thing i guess. There were a lot of good projects and it seemed like everyone was really into their projects. I found it amazing that everyone was very enthusiastic about their projects. As teenagers we arent very enthusiastic about anything, school especially. A lot of the ideas like the senior lounge and the stream clearing were very good ideas. The senior lounge would be a fun way to get kids out of Midkiff so kids can study there. The stream clearing could provide a stream for other groups like the aquaponics to create their ideas. This stream could produce fields of fruits and vegetables. Also it would be astheticly pleasing to those entering our campus. It could also open the old lava tubes that once connected to Pearl Harbor. So many things are possiable in these ideas. I really loved all the projects and just hope that they can be continued in the future years.

Friday night, we all finally presented our projects in Konia 108-109. I thought it was going to be in the Auditorium but there was something going on in there so we were forced to present in the classrooms. I didn't really mind, especially because it made talking in front of everybody a little bit easier. I honestly thought that our presentation was going to suck really bad, but it turned out much better than I expected. I'm actually proud of how well we presented and how we nailed the time limit. I also though that it was funny how we were the only people who didn't go all out on our attire, and how we rocked the uniforms. Honestly, all the presentations were really boring and I didn't know how I was going to survive all night listening to them, but it was interesting finding out about what all of these other groups tried to solve. I felt a bit proud that we were one of the few groups who had a successful deployment.

thursday may 17

Today is the day before our final presentation and we are working on the final touches. We have implemented our project and it has turned out differnetly than i expected. The A frame we had to hold up the signs were suppose to be the most durable. But even the strongest sign blew down against the kapalama wind. Our sign got tossed around a couple of times and a little beat up. It has held up to the end though so i think we did something right! this was an awesome experience and i am glad that we have done this project. i hope that the future classes get to do this same experiment or something similar to it. it has really changed my perspective about how i look at problems and how i look at solving them.

Although our solution has been working well, we have encountered several problems along the duration our project has been up and running. One problem we encountered is that our sign isn't so stable. One of the signs has fallen off one of the sides because the tape has given in. This isn't a major problem, but if this project were to be recreated, I would highly recommend a much more stable design to be used. Another problem is that of people messing with the pockets which is much bigger deal. I was afraid of this kind of thing happening, but it was inevitable. At first I was amazed at how our sign was standing with no tampering, but now the entree signs are being messed around with. I don't know why people go out of there way to mess with our sign because it doesn't benefit anybody.