Rebel Rockets-Day 22

I guess this is the last journal post. I'm not sure if it's supposed to be what we did or if we are supposed to reflect on the overall experience, so I'll just do both. To start off we made this awesome video montage of our rocket launches and then made a slide show, and then put together a presentation board for the SEE Fair...that took up our whole day. As for the whole project, I had a really good time, and it was way better than going to school. During the project we had to constantly adapt to our different needs because we always had problems. This is something that we probably wouldn't have had to do if we were in school, and that single learning experience is something that makes the senior project worth it. I had a great time, almost want to keep doing it...Almost.

-Mike B.

Today, we completely finished the project. We made the video montage, which took a good deal of time because we had to get all the videos uploaded onto the computer. Also, we lost one of the cameras, and that took a while to find. We also printed out all the graphs and placed them on the poster. We also printed out the program that Tim wrote for us for the accelerometer and placed that on the poster. A powerpoint was also finished for the SEE fair.
This entire experience was really fun. It was a lot better than going to school for the last month. I couldn't imagine how bad senioritis would have been if we were in school instead of doing the Senior Enrichment Experience. I didn't expect to run into all the problems that we did during this experience. There were so many obstacles in this project like waiting for the accelerometer to arrive, figuring out a way to construct homemade model rockets, and all the failed launches. We really had to work together and come up with new ways around all the problems so that our ultimate goals could still be accomplished. Overall, it was a really good experience, however, since it was the first time for our school to be doing this, there will probably be changes made.

-Christian

Today was spent making the video montage for the SEE fair. That took up most of the day. We worked on uploading all of the pictures and put music to the music. We also built a poster to present our project with.
Over the course of this project, i learned many new things. I also learned how to solve problems in a new way. If i had not done this project, i wouldn't have been forced to solve these problems. I believe that i have grown because of this project and I would definately recommend this to continue on over the next years.

-Ben W.

Today was the final day of our SEE project. We did all that was left to do. We worked on making a video montage for our presentation. We then made a poster to present our project. We printed out all of the accelerometer graphs and put them on the poster. We then printed the programming for our poster, crediting Tim. Last we put the A3-4T thrust graph and the displacement prediction graph on the poster. With this we had finished our project. Our project was a learning experience for everyone in the group. We all learned to solve problems in our own way and through teamwork. The roadblocks that we encountered only helped us push ourselves to accomplishing our goals, whether they were during construction or in the math. I personally was able to push myself farther than I have before when doing the calculus. It was good to get back into math, as I did not have a math course to take this year. It was a good experience to prepare for my major in college. I would recommend the SEE project to any senior who would have the opportunity to participate in it.

-Scott