As you may know about two months ago our PLP class did a trip down to Oregon and Washington state to do a study on the Manhattan project. For the trip students where split up into groups that all had different topics but where all related to the Manhattan project. Our schedule for the trip was pretty straight forward.

Wednesday, September 21: drive to Portland

Thursday, September 22: Reed collage; Columbia River Gorge: Mary hill museum of art.

Friday, September 23: Hanford- pre war historic sites tour and the reach museum.

Saturday, September 24 Hanford reactor tour and drive back home.

The group I was in we did the secrecy of the Manhattan Project and I thought the topic was very interesting and fascinating on what we learned and gathered on the trip. At the time of war the Hanford site was the most top secret place in the world. Imagine the government keeping a 600 square mile chunk of land that had 9 nuclear reactors producing plutonium for the nuclear bombs used on Japan from the public and not even one secret was let out, pretty impressive right?. As you are still reading this I guess you are quite interested to see the project so here it is enjoy.

https://youtu.be/hZlMzmyiVjY

 
My role in the project was mostly recording interviews and asking the questions in the interviews. The creation process for the project was really everyone in the group coming together and sharing their ideas till everyone agreed to an idea then we would execute it. The only thing I would have done differently next time is get better audio such as using a mic on all the interviews instead on only some of them.