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Friday, August 28, 2020

SCIENCE (NOTHING MORE THAN SCIENCE I PROMISE)

 Hej hej, I'm back with another episode of SCHOOL (BEST THING IN THE WORLD)! This week I did science with a side of nothing, and it worked out for the most part. I did the science, got the results, and got the Friday off to tell you what I did!! (I didn't get the day off) 

If you'd like the science report of all the things I and my buddy Rico did you can check this out on this link!

If you'd like a small rundown i learnt how planes fly, made a plan for what I would do with my new found knowledge, created planes I would use for the test flight, asked for measuring tape, made a spreadsheet to markdown results, did test flights and then did normal plane flights, and slapped it on to a beautiful report that I will say again, you can click on the link above and read.

That will be all for today viewers, I will take my leave.

Adios.

Monday, August 10, 2020

Rockets and failing parachutes (Made by me)

 Hej hej,

I have mode some test parachutes for the Wonder project. What's the Wonder project you ask? Well it's a project where you make your own rockets and once done you can launch your very own rocket! We were currently in the process of learning about parachutes and making them by scratch using only the materials we were given. I will give you the step by step program on how I made my parachute

1. I made a circle prototype using newspaper, a cloth rag and string. It was my start off idea and I attached a pencil to it that managed to float for about 1 second instead plummeting to the ground, so it was my base for the finished project.

2. I made a bigger version of the prototype and added a little bit more of tape, i thought it did good with the pencil so on went the two cogs that we had to fly down and the parachute folded on itself.

3.I then added some paper towels for more strength but it didn't work too well so I brainstormed some more ideas.

4. I had the idea of putting some string and taping it on to the places where the parachute was folding in and it stopped folding in on itself when falling, so now there's an x of string on the top of the chute that allows it to fall.

5. to hold the cogs in place one of my team members decided to incase the two hex nuts in layers of tape and material which added safety and weight, too much weight.

The final outcome looks like this - 

You can see the tape, the nut holder, the materials, and the string.

Overall from roughly 3-5 meter height it flew 2.3 seconds which isn't too bad might I say myself.

OK byebye