Hi blog readers!
Today I will be telling you about my latest project in Scimatics!
This project was called the Ultimate Design Challenge, and was as fun as the title sounded! We had to make a 3D image of something we wanted to make that would either maximize surface area or volume. After we spent some time learning how to calculate surface area and volume of both easy shapes to calculate like cubes, before moving on to some more advanced topics like cylinders and triangular prisms.
My partner and I decided to make a rocket ship that would maximize volume, because we realized that most rocket ships don’t have a lot of space to move around in. We wanted to make a rocket ship that would have a lot of room in it. My partner made the inside of the ship, while I made the outside
This is my final product
These are my calculations for the outside of the ship
My ratio in the end was 18.239:1, very good compared to other people, so I succeeded by a lot in this project!
Curricular Competencies:
I think that I spent most of my class time effectively and efficiently. I spent a lot of time working on my rocket ship, and even more on my calculations.
I made a really good rocket ship in Tinkercad that used a lot of hard and different shapes. For example, I used a lot of circular prisms, and I didn’t use any easy shapes such as rectangular prisms. I also used a cone and two hemispheres, which both took a long time to calculate the surface area and volume.
I did a great job in my calculations and presenting them in a Keynote presentation to the class. I made the Keynote look very good, with background images, fonts, etc. I also showed the calculations very well, and presented them in a easy-to-read ratio that summed up my calculations. My ratio was 18.239:1, a very good ratio.
Thank you for reading my post, and I hope you learned something!