For this project, we learned how we can connect Romeo and Juliet, to other conflicts throughout history. In Physics and Engineering, we made roller coasters that connected to a world conflict that we were studying, and learned how to solve for energy. In Humanities, we made a products that connected to our world conflict as well as Romeo and Juliet.
My outstanding moment during this project was when I put all my track on the module, and we got the marble to roll down it the first time. This specific moment stood out to me because I had spent about 2 weeks learning how to weld the tracks, what materials to use, and then welding my own track. Then, after spending a few hours figuring out how to temporarily place our tracks on our module, it was time to try to get the marble to roll down it. The first couple of times the marble fell off while jumping through our pieces, and I began to get slightly discouraged. After manipulating the track a little more, I tried again. Except, this time it was different, it worked. I was extremely excited so I called over my friends to show them my progress. Even though the next couple of times it didn’t work, it proved that this project was actually possible, giving me hope that we could complete the daunting task put in front of us. Some ways I feel that my group could have improved during our presentation in both our design pitch and exhibition, was to talk more about how our products connected to Romeo and Juliet, and to talk more about our Humanities products. I feel like a lot of people just wanted to see our roller coaster work, but didn’t care about anything else. We could have been better at just talking about our products, whether the audience wanted to see it or not. Something that didn’t turn out the way I wanted it to was our background art. I feel like it was pretty simple, and I wish we could have added more to it. Our product could be better by pushing our track design more, and adding more to the background art. Overall, this project was extremely fun and challenging. |