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Reverse Engineering Project Blog - 10/13/17

Reverse Engineering Project Blog : Victor Nguyen Summary Through this project, I learned again what reverse engineering is. Reverse engineering is taking apart an item to see what it is made of and how it works. After choosing our groups and choosing an item that has more than 7 parts, my group wrote a proposal. The JetJat Nano Drone and Drone Remote has 10 parts, altogether. The batteries send energy through the wires, that power energy to the motherboard, which sends to signal to the drone when you move the joysticks. The screws interacts with the parts, because it keeps everything together. Engineers go through many steps of the EDP, to make this item, and now I know how it works. After six weeks of learning about conflict, I used it in this project. As you can see, this is what I learned in the Reverse Engineering project. Backward-Looking Before this project, I already knew what reverse engineering was because I did a similar project last year in another class. Even if I h
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EOY Project Blog - 5/12/17

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Project Blog : Victor Nguyen 7A Image our build Summary For this project, we are working on our build portion of this End of the Year Project. We are to build our prototype. I learned many things in this project. My EOY group is me, Frank, and Jessica P. Our clients is Abram, Jennah, and Tiffany. We are to build their project, and they are to build our project. Our clients wanted to redesign the old garden area, right outside Ms Garcia's classroom. We wanted to redesign the cafeteria, and have more modernized furniture and color. I learned that we can connect our build to our mission statement, which is Revolutionizing a Space, Where Students can Hang Out and Feel Welcomed. If you we make our space more modernized, students might wanna go there. So as you can see, I learned many things doing this End of Year project.  Backward Looking Our work tells a story. It shows that we redesign this place. From a bland, boring place where not many students usually hang out and
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EOY Project W3 - 5/5/17

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Weekly Blog : Victor Nguyen 7A Design Process This week,  we on the  prototype of scale model  of the  Make and Test a Model  step, because we are not done building.  Summary This week, we did many things. For example, on Monday, we continued to build. We needed 25 grey chairs, so that is what we started on building. Jessica brought black and white clay, so we combined the two and made grey. The chairs was kinda simple to build, because we first made the legs, then built the seating cushions, and the then the back cushions of the chair. On Tuesday, we continued making the chairs. I, with the help of Frank made the tables. Our clients wanted clear tables, so we used water bottles to make it clear. We used cardboard as the legs of the the table. On Wednesday, we also continued doing the same thing, like continued, and finish making the chairs and table. On Thursday, we painted the base to make it green like grass, and make it black like the sidewallk and street. After the base
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EOY Project W2 - 4/28/17

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Weekly Blog : Victor Nguyen 7A Design Process This week,  we on the prototype of scale model of the Make and Test a Model step. Summary This week, we did many things. For example, on Monday we finished up our questions and we also interviewed our clients. Our clients, Abram, Jennah, and Tiffany also interviewed us. We are building their redesign of the old garden. They are building our redesign of the cafeteria. On Tuesday, we started our sketches, and showed our clients to see if thats how they want it. On the bottom you should see. On Wednesday, we decided who will bring the materials to be able to build. We are going to use toothpicks/popsicle sticks for the hamac, cloth for the canopy, clay/playdoh for the chairs and table. On Thursday, we kinda started building. Without Frank, it was kinda hard to start, because he's kind of the one that creative. We also created our mission statements in ela; our mission statement is " Using the power of revolutionizing a space
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Asteroid Impact W3 - 4/7/17

Weekly Blog : Victor Nguyen 7A Design Process This week,  we completed  the  brainstorming and thumbnail sketching   step . Now, we are on the prototype and scale model  step, since we just start to sketch. Summary This week, we did many things. This week, we had block schedule due to testing, so we only had this class Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday.. On Monday, we finished up our sketches. We decided that our cavern will be 1.88 km per inch. Our cavern will be 16 in x 5 in x 6 in tall. On Wednesday, since it was a short day, we just decided on who will bring the materials. I was supposed to bring the newspapers. My team members, Frank and Kaden were supposed to bring cardboard and clear wrap. On Thursday, we started to create our cavern. Me and Frank starting measuring out the cardboard. After that, Kaden cut the cardboard into its correct shape. As a team, we taped up the cardboard with masking tape and duct tape, to crest a rectangular box. Then, we covered up the entire
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Asteroid Impact W2- 3/31/17

Weekly Blog : Victor Nguyen 7A Design Process This week,  we are completed  the  background research  step . Now, we are on the brainstorming and thumbnail sketching step, since we just start to sketch Summary This week, we have done many things,  like continuing the Asteroid Impact  project .  On Monday, we continued learning and completing activities about asteroids and rocks. We complete, "Lesson 4: Possible Locations." My group, Kaden and Frank, we found some possible locations our cavern could be. We chose some of these locations because they have clear paths, away from physical/natural features, can get water easily, and is away from highways, and railroad. We also researched rocks, for its hardness, color, granularity, and luster. On Tuesday, we finished researching the rocks, and completed, "Lesson 6: Ranking the Rocks." We used our researched to rank the rocks giving it points. We then ranked the points, seeing which rock is the best. 2 of our pos
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Asteroid Background Research - 3/29/17

Background Research Throughout many lessons and activities, I have learned many things. I learned whether our cavern should be big. We said our cavern should be as big as 1/10 of the state. We looked at the map, and made sure our cavern is not in the way of any physical or natural geographical features, like mountains and fault lines. We learned how big each person takes up. After measuring the classroom, and dividing it by the amount of people, we found out each person should take up about 66.25 meters squared. For 10,000,000, it should be about 662.5 km sq. We then, compared the size to military base. We learned how big one map square is which is 10km by 10km. We found possible locations of the cavern. (D4,D5, E4,E5,F4,F5) (E24-26, F24-26, and half of G24-26), and (D11, D12, E11, E12) .We chose 3, because some of the locations are clear path of physical/natural features, and has a good rock. Out of 3, 2 of these locations have good rocks, like gneiss and granite. As you can see,
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