Final Blog Post Ever!

With this final project coming to a close, I feel that this was one of the most unique, most difference making and one of the best projects that I've done in my years at Kamehameha. This quarter long project gave us as students a break from the books and the lectures and the quizzes and tests, and gave us a chance to make our own problems and made ourselves learn and adapt and problem solve on our own. And it gave us a chance to work as a group, which we NEVER do anymore at this school. Well for my group, and me we succeeded despite all of the roadblocks and speed bumps. It wasn't only hard completing this project, but it was fun as well because we got to do things at our own pace and at our own time schedule. For my group and I, pretty much everything went well because we worked effectively as a group and stayed on task all of the time. We sacrificed our own time outside of class to work on things because that’s what you need to do in a group in order to succeed and in order for everyone to stay on the same page. I don’t really think that anything went wrong; it was just the speed bumps that we needed to overcome, which we as a group did well.
I wouldn’t change anything about this project because it started off as Mr. Blake choosing our own groups, which was a good way for us to actually meet everyone in our class and make new friends. And how we incorporated technology to its fullest in this project using googledocs and blogger as well. Doing everything at our own pace and how we had control over this project to be independent is what made this project fun and exciting for me. I learned many things from this project such as working with others, working with ADULTS, and working on the biggest thing, time management and work ethic. Time management and work ethic are the very two things that we're all going to need for the rest of our lives and this project tested us on that and it taught us how to either do our work on time, or receive a bad grade. Simple as that.
When thinking about how this project dealt with physics/science as a whole, I felt that this project seemed to most as not a science related project, but in my eyes I felt that this was. We learned the problem solving process and as well as using what we learned in class the first three quarters to figure out how to assemble things. For my group, we used physics greatly, because we had to follow a tough schematic and then wire a solar panel together. So we kind of took our classroom learning’s to the next level and applied it to our project. Like Mr. Blake said, "its physics baby!" (everything applies to physics)