Final Blog Post

Today marks the final day of the 4th quarter besides finals.  Doing this project during the 4th quarter was a very fun and enjoyable experience that taught me a lot.  I feel that the project was a great success that all came together the night of our presentations.  Things that went well with the project are that we the students we able to make a difference in the school that can be seen, some on a bigger scale than others, but just knowing that you made a difference is rewarding enough.  Also i like how this project was able to make me more familiar with my group members and helped me to get to know people that i didn't know before.  Things that didn't go to well include, a very long waiting process and not enough time to collect data.  However these thing could not have been prevented and were all apart of the learning process.  Waiting for the administrations approval showed me how much people go through in order to plan events for us.  It also tested our groups patience, but was so rewarding when it finally came through.  One of the main things I learned from this project is to always expect the unexpected and be able to adapt to it quickly.  I was taught this when our group had to face the waiting period of over a week to get our bell approved.  It showed to me how hard it is to get anything approved by administration, and made me thankful for all that our class advisors do for us.  I think what could be changed to help make this project better is that we have student logs of what we did each day.  This will show exactly how much work is being done, and if need be will be able to show who messed up where.  Other than that i would keep the project the same, because it was a really new and exciting experience.  I do think that I was doing science, however it didn't feel like it.  I was having so much fun doing this project that it didn't feel like science although we clearly were doing science every day, wether it be inquiring data or coming up with a hypothesis.  In general this project was a great success and i would really recommend that it be done in the future.