Term 2- Tech Fair 2017
Name: Samia Kapoor
Class: 8-BB
Unit Title: Tech Fair Project
Statement of Inquiry: Developments in technology have led to scientific and technical innovations extending its scope to diverse fields today
Global Context: Scientific and Technical Innovation
ATL Skills: Creative Thinking and Research
Key Concepts: Development
Related Concepts: Innovation and invention
Article- The project that I am going to be telling you about is not made by a student. It is actually made by one of the biggest companies, it is made by google. It is google's self-driving car. This is a car that is very expensive. It can drive itself and the owner doesn't have to drive the car. Google decided to make this to make driving easier for everyone. Google thought it was nice to have a fully self-driving technology in a car because it would be much nicer to reach a place by pushing a button instead of driving. Google has made these cars and have tested them out on streets and say that they work great. The cars have sensors which is able to detect anything that is in fornt of it. For example, if the car is going and the sensor picks up that there is someone in front then the software will automatically slow down the car in order to not hit the other car. This project was started in 2009 then they started making prototypes and testing their creations and then finally they made a fully self-driving car. Google self-driven car went for over 2 million miles. The project was so successful that Google decided to make an independent self-driving technology company which they named Waymo. Google is working on a way of changing the product a bit and so when the car gets put of control the owner can regain control back again to avoid accidents in case the car malfunctions.
reflection- I decided to talk about the self-driving cars because the project really interested me. I think this was very fun to get to know about what nice and new innovations technology has to offer for us. It was a lot of fun researching and getting to know more information about a project that I was interested in. It was tricky to get all the right data but in the end I got it and I am pretty happy with my description.
Article- The project that I am going to be telling you about is not made by a student. It is actually made by one of the biggest companies, it is made by google. It is google's self-driving car. This is a car that is very expensive. It can drive itself and the owner doesn't have to drive the car. Google decided to make this to make driving easier for everyone. Google thought it was nice to have a fully self-driving technology in a car because it would be much nicer to reach a place by pushing a button instead of driving. Google has made these cars and have tested them out on streets and say that they work great. The cars have sensors which is able to detect anything that is in fornt of it. For example, if the car is going and the sensor picks up that there is someone in front then the software will automatically slow down the car in order to not hit the other car. This project was started in 2009 then they started making prototypes and testing their creations and then finally they made a fully self-driving car. Google self-driven car went for over 2 million miles. The project was so successful that Google decided to make an independent self-driving technology company which they named Waymo. Google is working on a way of changing the product a bit and so when the car gets put of control the owner can regain control back again to avoid accidents in case the car malfunctions.
reflection- I decided to talk about the self-driving cars because the project really interested me. I think this was very fun to get to know about what nice and new innovations technology has to offer for us. It was a lot of fun researching and getting to know more information about a project that I was interested in. It was tricky to get all the right data but in the end I got it and I am pretty happy with my description.
reflection- These are my three ideas for the tech fair. I haven't yet decided which I am going to use but I think all the ideas are unique and very nice. I think I will see which project is most relevant and then make my choice. It involved a lot of thinking to come up with these projects. I think they might have some flaws which means I won't be able to make some of these ideas but I will see the best one and get started on that for my tech fair project.
Reflections- This is my presentation. I used power point presentation to make this. I used different animations to make it look good to make it nice to present to our class. When we were presenting our project to the class at first they didn't like our project but then we changed it and then they liked it in the end. I enjoyed presenting it to the class they all had great suggestions and amazing question. This project is on if the steps to start our project and I am sure this will help us a lot along the way.
Design Brief - The laser alarm is an alarm system that protects burglars from coming into your house. It is designed for people who live in unsafe areas and need extra protection in their house. The design will include two parts the laser pointer and the mother board and when the signal to the motherboard is blocked the alarm will ring and you can catch the burglar. There are going to be two circuits that are going to be joined together and then attached to the motherboard. The two circuits will be the detection circuit and the alarm circuit.The motherboard is going to have a Led, an electric buzzer, the 2N7000 transistor, Battery and battery cap, 6.8 resistance, 100 Ohm restiance, wire and then all these are going to be soldered together in order to complete the circuit and get the motherboard finished. Our product will be placed in front of the gate or your door so the laser will be on one side and the motherboard will be on the other side the laser will act as a tripwire so when the burglar enters it will ring and you can catch the burglar easily.
Reflection- I tried my best to explain my design brief as best as I could. I answered the questions that were given to me by my teacher in my deign Brief. The design Brief was a little hard to write because it was hard to explain what I am going to be doing. I think next time I am going to try to add more detailed information in order to explain my project better.
REFLECTION
This is my firszt time doing a tech fair project. I have nver done this before in my old school. This was a very interesting journey for me and I learnt so many new things. At first we came up with an idea that wasn't very nice and it was scientific. Later on we came up with a better idea. The project was a little complicated we made 3 circuts until we found a working one. In the end we decided to make another simple version of the project so then we had 2 types of alarms. Evetually we made a good project and got in the tech fair.
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