Over the past week EYE continued
work on planning the next Saturday Program. We began to gather teacher
volunteers to lead the various planned stations, reaching out to faculty from the music department to go along
with our “Music in Engineering” theme. Also this week, EYE will officially open
registration for our Saturday Program by giving fliers to each elementary
school within the district, to be distributed to every student. To promote this, we have sent out our own invitation to parents whose children participated...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Saturday, January 24, 2015
Redirecting our efforts towards Nitinol's application again, we have begun to look for a way to create
cheaper, more easily attainable solar energy by combining Nitinol and Solar heater technology. We have recently ordered an engine and are currently trying to
improve upon its pulley system, which we hope, will drastically increase its efficiency. We seek to do this by 3D printing a new pulleys. These pulleys we have designed in such a way, that friction between the Nitinol and rotating wheel...
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
EYE is currently working on coordinating future Saturday programs at Saratoga, with the next date set to be February 28 th. The new programs will have a different theme; music. Activities and logistics of the program are currently in the development phase. We aim to create activities that successfully incorporate music into engineering-based challenges, exposing elementary level children to design processes and ideas that they would not otherwise encounter. We have been working with Shen...
Friday, January 16, 2015
Things are really getting underway with our autonomous Hydroponic garden. Materials are in and building has commenced. Students scramble back and forth across the room, the grow-tent is taking shape and programmers are learning new code in order to interface our electronics with Arduino microcontrollers. Decisions have been made in regards to which electronics we will use, LEDs, pumps, aerators and fans were delivered...
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