So here is my amazing SLC blog post, jeez haven’t done this in a while “let me just crack my knuckles”.

So today I have three topics to talk about to you people? viewers?

-One thing I am most proud of

–One thing I am not proud of

–My reflection on my work

One thing I am most proud of:

One of the things I am very proud of is my Destination Imagination project as me and my group worked any time that we could so that when we went to the tournament we were ready and pumped up to go perform! I had so much fun being the main character in the skit, it was a great experience!

Our first time we came Second Place but we had so much fun and we won an award because of how outstanding our story was and how it was presented. Then we moved onto provincials and we tried really hard and came second again but this time with a trophy and medals. In the end we all thanked each other because we all worked so greatly together.

Read More:

http://www.blog44.ca/quinnh/2016/03/03/di-project-regional-tournament-review-and-debreifing/

One thing I am not proud of:

Sometimes we always have something that we aren’t that proud of because of different reasons. I’m not that proud of my SciMathics light project. I tried hard and I made a functioning creation that showed all:

• colour
• opacity
• translucency
• Transparency
• A prism
• a cylinder
• reflection
• refraction
• Information about Ibn-al-haythem

I just felt that at the exhibition it was so small and it didn’t really even stand out, it was just sitting there surrounded by huge cardboard boxes with big projects in them. But I will give myself this, it was small but effective and I felt it delivered a decent message, but hey there was definitely room for improvement.

Read More:

http://www.blog44.ca/quinnh/2016/06/17/scimathics-raven-brings-the-light/

My reflection on my work:

So far this year has been a great hard worked year, that does need some improvements. Like for example, sometimes I didn’t get stuff in on time. Some of my other projects were iffy like the Worldview Explain Everything, I forgot a lot of key components and parts of my worldview.

I really love working in groups, its always a blast! Especially when we get to perform or do plays, that just makes my day because I’m used to lots of performing. I’m really focusing on the things I can make much better for next year and I want to excel better than this year!

Read Last SLC Blog Post:

http://www.blog44.ca/quinnh/2016/03/04/slc-in-plp/

Well that’s all I’ve got and I really hope you enjoyed listening to my SLC Blog Post!

Peace, Quinn

About a week or two ago there has been some heavy work, mainly focused on museums along with sailing expeditions and how trade and exploration was implemented into the lives of many across the world. So we started on another group based project together and made amazing things. My group worked on an amazing exhibit where visitors could play a well though game our group came up with where you roll a dice and say it lands on 6 then you have 600 dollars and then you roll one other dice that determines what ship you get. Then with that money you buy items that you feel what would help you on your journey the most and at the end of your simulation our group tells you how good you did and how your decisions were. Once again I’m sorry I lost my Ipad so I can not access any photos.

So a while back in the plp class, we had been learning a lot about poetry and had lots of fun making our own poems in the process. For a final challenge, the whole class was put into different working groups all focusing on one goal, to make a poetry iBook. So we all had an online poll to see who would like to do which job, as there were many to pick from. So I made my choice and I got it! Musician, our group was in-charge of making the music for the videographers and their videos, as well as parts of the book with Explain Everything projects implemented. So we had a long but fun journey on garage band making use of our musical skill for the better of the class. Garage Band had great tools such as real instruments you could play and you could also use loops and electronic features to make different types of music in different genres!

      

So from very far back into the year to the end we have been working on our very own blue sky projects, designed to help the world or make life easier etc. So I thought, what could really help the environment if done successfully? Water orbs!! Not just any though, these were meant to be a replacement for a plastic water bottle or close too it, my first draft was very good, the sizes were great, but they broke very easily. So I worked on putting more of the formula in to make a stronger molecular bind so the edible gel around the water was stronger and more resistant. These two ingredients calcium lactate, and sodium alginate, go together and create a chemical reaction creating a sphere or the scientific process called “spherication”  I wish I could have shown you some of my pictures but my ipad has been lost so I don’t have a way to add the photos into the blog. I hope you learned something new about my project!

My project represents how raven brought the light, and the theory of light like Ibn al-Haytham. The main project creation of mine is a black raven with a Salish design on its wings and tail, the main feature is to refract light, refraction is just light being deflected into another medium or method out of the Ravens beak through a convex lens, or a lens that curves outward that is transparent so all the light passes through, and it shows that the raven brought the light. It also has a mirror that reflects the light and mirrors the light to make the same image, just reflecting onto before it is refracted to a translucent lens, the translucent lens only lets some light pass through, which when light shines through nothing is in its way or being absorbed and that light goes out of the wing. There is one more thing which is the opaque side, which doesn’t have any light shining through because no light can pass through as it is completely blocked, but it also represents the darkness of the world before the raven brought the light, and it scientifically works too so bonus! My hope is to have a small flashlight inside the raven so it shines out of the beak and refracts out of the convex transparent lens. My project raven is translational symmetry because everything is mirrored. And that’s what my science project is based on.R