Presentation to Bechtel

On Tuesday November 22, Allie Lehane, Aaron Batker Pritzker, Sam Hyatt, and Casey Kerr presented the purpose of Project Lead the Way, our school's past achievements, our current projects, and our contribution to the community of Saratoga Springs to a group of four engineers from Bechtel Corporation. Part of an effort to raise money for the class, the presentation prompted many questions from the audience about our design process, what we have learned,...

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Fundraising

This past week, we gave presentations in class addressing the estimated final costs of our projects. Based on what was presented, we need to continue to raise money so we have sufficient funds to complete everything by the end of the year. The EDD Class recently recieved a grant from Youth2 for $500. We also held a bake sale in school yesterday where we were able to raise $134.60. In addition, we are holding a Kan-Jam tournament in December. We hope...

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Former EDD student meeting with current EDD students

Tom Corona, the lead programmer in the campus security project 2 years ago, is meeting with the current students working of the campus security project, over the upcoming break. Tom will help the students understand how the code works, and help them organize it. Tom, being a self taught programmer, will also share some of his experience and advice to further inform this year's EDD studen...

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MakerBot Versus Reprap

The 3-D printer group gave a presentation in class about the positives and negatives of buying a complete kit or starting from scratch. The decision was narrowed down in deciding between the MakerBot Thing-O-Matic and the Reprap Mendel. A second presentation will be given next class in further detail of each model's printing specifications, tolerance and quality of printing, and of consumer revie...

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An Update on Computer Cooling

When last you heard about the Self-Contained Submersion Cooling project, it was a fantasy existing only in my own mind. Now two months into the class, team leader Joshua Nixon and members Aaron Batker Pritzker, Alex Gailor, John Howe, and George Kaplan are making that dream a reality. With two main objectives in mind, to minimize turbulence in the flowing liquid and to maximize the area of contact between the processor and coolant, we created two...

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Students Present to PLTW Representatives

Today, a group of representatives from Project Lead The Way came in for an overview of what we've been working on over the past two months. A small group of students; composed of Allie Lehane, Aaron Batker Pritzker, Sam Hyatt, and Casey Kerr, presented to them. They showed a PowerPoint which summarized some our school's past EDD projects, our current projects, and what extra things our group is planning on doing to help the community.The presentation...

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Fine-tuning

With the final group members picked for each project, everyone is excited to start working with their new teams! As a class we decided to narrow down our projects to just three. The three projects we chose are the 3D printer, the computer cooling and the campus security app formerly known as "Aegis." Today, we were proud to come up with the official name for the campus security app. It will now be called, "Ally Campus Security." While it would seem...

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The Future of Printing

Yesterday, we were presented with a new and fresh idea in class. The idea would be to create our own 3D printer. After researching and finding out what is already out there on the market, we found all kinds of 3D printers ranging from highly intricate designs at $20,000 to basic DIY 3D printers at $1,500.One specific 3D printer, on the more affordable side, that interested us was called the MakerBot. It is essentially a machine that can produce a...

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Bake Sale Soon

On November 17, 2011, 14 days away as ofposting, there will be a bake sale. All proceeds will fund this year’s EDDprojects, including the computer cooling project, and the campus security project.All items, including cookies, brownies, and muffins, will be baked and donatedby members of the EDD class for a reasonable price....

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