Cheepono, final blog post EVER!

This past quarter has been, by far, the most challenging quarter of my entire high school career. To be honest, at the start of the project, I didn't think that the things that we'd be accomplishing at the end of the quarter were going to be all that substantial. I went into the project not really caring and thinking that the changes that we made to Kamehameha couldn't possibly be that big of a deal, but I'm leaving the project with brand new eyes.
This project has really shown me the importance of putting your heart and soul into the work that you do. Never in my life have I committed so much of my time to any single project, and I can only hope that all of the work that my group and I did pays off.
In general, our project went extremely well. We started off a bit rocky with our initial idea of trying to build a water wheel. And may I just say, what the heck were we thinking? I guess desperate times call for desperate measures. Anyway, after that first little hiccup, our project really took a turn for the best. Thanks to Tiare's genius idea to email RevoluSun and their wanting to help us in any way they could, our project was made a lot easier than it potentially could have been.
The biggest thing that I learned throughout the course of this project is to have faith and be thankful for what is given to you. At the beginning of this process, it really seemed like RevoluSun getting back in touch with us was a bit of a long shot, yet everyone in our group really relied on them, and they ended up pulling through for us. Because of this, I think everyone in our group knows now that even if we're scared of what may happen, we should take the leap and do things anyway. Another really important lesson that I learned from this project is teamwork. As cheesy and cliche as it sounds, teamwork was the most important aspect of this project. Having all four of our group members working together cohesively was key to making sure that our project was completed on time. Having a tight team was also important for our group because we were all spending so much time with each other outside of class and school. We all went into this project barely knowing each other, but something about building a solar panel system together kind of brings people closer.
This was a really great project to experience right before ending high school because it showed us all of the things that we have to be grateful for. This project let me see just how much this school does for us and all of the opportunities that I have because of this school. If I had to change something about it though, I would suggest trying to make sure that the actual premise of the project is laid out really solidly. Because this was the first year for the project, there were bound to be some issues, but there is always room for improvement.
Finally, I definitely knew that our group was doing science. We were dealing with building solar panels right after we had learned about the energy unit and building schematic diagrams, so the physics concepts of our project were really clear. Our group was lucky in finding physics easily in our project, unlike some of the other groups.

And as a final thought, I just wanted to thank the members of my group for being amazing and for working so well together. We did it guys!! :)