Victor's Engineering Blog

Weekly Blog : Victor Nguyen 7A Design Process This week,  we are still on  the background research step, because we are still doing and completing lessons and activity Summary This week, we have done many things,  like starting  a new project .  On Monday, we started new project, the Asteroid Project. My group, is me, Frank and Kaden. This project, we are to create a shelter that can withstand an asteroid. This shelter must be able to hold 10 million people. We were given a worksheet, "Lesson 1: What's the Problem?" With our group, we finding the problem, and coming with ideas of where we can have our cavern. On Tuesday, we were given another worksheet, "Lesson 2: How Big?" Again, with our group, we found out the measurement of the classroom, with the area of 110 meters squared, and a volume of 354 meters cubed. We were figuring out how big the shelter room should be, and how many beds can fit, and how big the room should be for eating, sleeping, playi...

Project Blog : Victor Nguyen 7A Image This is our bridge. Summary For this project, I'd say was quite difficult. Like I've said in the past, in this project, we are to create a bridge that can have a farmer, a fox, a chicken, and corn to cross over a 1 meter bridge safely. I'd say this project was difficult, because we had less building time, and the material to build the bridge was quite hard to build with. Before building, me and my group kinda brainstormed some different bridges types, and chose to do arch, with some combination of some parts of other bridges. Then, we decided to use penne pasta, because it has a harder and stronger than some other pasta. So we decided on a penne and spaghetti pasta, arch bridge. In this project, I have learned many things, like the 6 different bridge types, beam, suspension, arch, truss, cantilever, and a cable stayed bridge. Each bridge has 4 different types of stresses, compression, tension, torsion, and shear forces. Com...

Weekly Blog : Victor Nguyen 7A Design Process This week, we have fin ished the brainstorming of t he Ge nerate Possible Solution s step. Now we are on and ho pe to fin ish the protyp e of scale model of the Make a nd Test a Model step. Summary This week, we have done many things, like continuin g a new project . On Monday, we cont inu ed what w e d id last week . Me and one of my teammates, Eduardo fin ished up our pro s and cons a bout bridges. While the other two in team, Jennah an d Jewel started to p lan what w e are going to have in our bridge. On Tues day, when everyone was done , we all plann ed out our bridge. So we decid ed to combine different parts of different bridges and made it this bri dge. We have a truss from a truss bridges, and some other t hings tha t will give the bri dge some tension and compression. On Wed nesday, Jennah brou ght som e penne, bec ause our main material is penne, instead on spaghetti. Since Mrs . Gar cia gave each group a box of...

Weekly Blog : Victor Nguyen 7A Design Process This week, I am on and almost done with the background research of the Define the Problem step. By next week, we should be and hope to be on the brainstorming - idea trigger method  step.  Summary This week, we have done many things, from starting a new project to having an extra day to work our fifth grade partner. On Monday, we started a new project, the Bridge Project. The goal of this project is create a bridge that is made of limited items: spaghetti, tape, and glue. This bridge is over a river and allows a farmer to cross over with his hen, fox, and corn safely. My group is me, Eduardo, Jennah, and Jewel. On Tuesday, we continued working on this project. On Tuesday, we continued working on this project. We researched the 4 different stresses on a bridge each. Jennah researched tension, Jewel did shear forces, and Eduardo did compression. I learned about torsion on a bridge. You can click on the link below to see mor...

Weekly Blog : Victor Nguyen 7A Design Process This week, I would say I'm not on a design step, because we have been working with the 5th graders on a different project. But I would say I completed the protype or scale model  of the Make and Test a Model step. I would say this, because on Wednesday, we worked with Ms Yip on a Marshmallow Design Challenge. We had create something, so I would say I completed that step. Summary This week, I would say we have done many things. Mainly this whole week, we kinda started a new project in Ms. McMillan's class. We started the Hero's Journey Partner Interview Project. On Monday, we were all given a 5th grade partner. My partner, her name is Gabi. For the two class periods in this class, I've learned many things about her. For example, I learned that she does a Filipino stick fighting thing called Eskrima. Then on Wednesday, we did something different. We worked with Ms. Yip and did a design challenge. It was a marshmallow...

Project Blog : Victor Nguyen 7A Image This is a our tirfold and our eco house Summary At the beginning of the project, we were already assigned group. My group was me, Minh Anh, Jewel, and Ben. No offense to Ben or Jewel. Even though half our group wasn't or didn't much of the work, we were still able to complete the task of the project. The task of the project was to build a house that was eco-friendly. Before building, we did our green write up. I learned that instead of spending hundreds of dollars on heating and cooling, you first close up any leaks at door or windows. This way the air can stay inside the house. Or you can use central heating and cooling, by using heat exchangers, blowers, burners, and less gas. You never want to use too much gas, because that's polluting the earth. Even though I didn't necessarily researched, or wrote about these parts in the green write up, I still learned about them since I have to present the project myself during S...

Weekly Blog : Victor Nguyen 7A Design Process This week, with my group, I am on Communicate Final Design. I, with my group are finishing, and wrapping up our project. Summary This week, I would say we have done many things. This whole week, we continued to finish of model of the eco house, and started on finishing the project. For example, on Monday, we were not at school, no work was done. On Tuesday, we had Ben and Jewel finish the house. So they did. Me and Minh Anh worked on our individual real estate flyers. On Wednesday, since now that our whole team is here, we had more help. We didn't have much time, since it is Wednesday. We each did our own part, either on the flyers, starting on our video, or finishing the house. On Thursday, we were in Ms. McMillan's room, for 3 periods to learn about video editing from CreaTV. On Friday, we writing our blog. If we have enough time, we are continuing to work on our project. As you can see, we have done many things this wee...