It All Comes To A Close

After 10 long weeks dedicated to this project, we are coming to a close. We have completed are final presentation during the symposium and have just turned in our final written report. Now that the project is over, it is time to reflect on what we have done and learned.

Overall, I think that this project really taught me a lot about many aspects in life. We had to deal with actual deadlines and actual people making decisions that we really couldn’t control. We learned to work as a team and to fulfill our own responsibilities or take the consequences. In addition to teamwork, we used problem solving skills and creativity to construct and implement our own ideas. This project is very unique and something that was well worth my while.

Some things that really went well include the symposium and actual completion of our projects and many of them working. The blog posts were a nice way to keep track of our progress and inform others who were interested in what we were doing. Like many things in life, not everything went the way we could have hoped. However, this is what made the project so realistic and meaningful; it showed that not everything will go the right way and you have to simply adjust. For example, the

If I could change anything about this project, it would be the time given. I believe that this is more of a semester project rather than a quarter. Although most groups were able to compete their tasks in the allotted time, I believe that over a semester, projects could be better planned, and data collection would be more accurate as far as longevity.

Was all of this related to science? IT’S PHYSICS BABY! Everything in life is science and when you collect data, you are truly doing science. That is what we did, and that is what we accomplished.

Thanks to Mr. Blake for the life lesson, and thanks to Princess Pauahi for the opportunity!

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