*Facepalm*

This is, without a doubt, one of the most challenging things that our group has had to face throughout high school. Going into this project, we didn't think that taking on Mr. Omo's water transferal problem was going to be all that difficult, but boy were we wrong. 
Our first ideas of creating a water wheel in order to move the water from the fishpond against gravity seemed like a great idea. We figured that we'd just be able to buy a water wheel and set it up at the fishpond, end of story. Problem is, water wheels are pretty expensive. So why not build a water wheel, you ask? Let's just say that none of us are expert water wheel builders, and we realistically won't be able to build a two-foot diameter water wheel in two weeks. 
So it looks like we're going to have to resort to our Plan B: solar panels. Currently, Mr. Omo has a series of two, 5-volt solar panels set up to run the bell system and pumps of the fish pond. The problem with Mr. Omo's solar panels is that they are only able to store enough energy to run for 24 hours. This means that our groups' new objective is to find new solar panels at a slightly higher voltage as well as a battery system that we could use to store the energy from the solar panels. 

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