Egg Drop Challenge - Iteration #1

Total # of Achievements Earned: 22

3) Post an image of your Egg Drop solution.

- Our first achievements came from our supplies could fit in a cigar box if we crushed the cup, that's 3 ach.
- Our idea weighed less than 50 grams so we got an extra 6 achievements.
- Our first attempt hit the paper so we got 1 achievement.
- Our egg did not crack at all so there is 6 more.
- We used algebra to find the distance the egg falls, geometry using shapes and arithmetic to add the distance of the fall, we got 3 for this.
- Our last four achievements came from brainstorming and generating ideas.

-The other ideas that worked well were the simple ones. Mikes parachute held up well and it was just a piece of paper on top of something. Conners was also a parachute attacked to some mechanism. His mechanism had a cone inside so it made for better cushion.

Improvement?!

-A way that we could have improved our experiment was to add a helium baloon on top of the parachute so that it would have floated down slower and more accurately.

Part II of the TED activity will have you negotiate within a group to select the "best" video to represent the group. The student with the chosen video will recieve extra credit. The group will then prepare a short presentation that summarizes the talk and will present to the class. The class will choose the best presentation and that group will recieve extra credit.

Ted-Superstring theory.

1) What is the TED organization about?
-The ted organization is about different philosophers coming together and explaining their ideas to the world.

2) What is the purpose of their website and how does the functionality of their site support that?
-The purpose of having their website the way that it is, is so that people can visit their website to gather information about their ideas. It is formatted the way that it is so that you can easily scroll around and pick a video of your choosing.

3) As Engineers and Problem Solvers, which topic areas (the choices from the "Show talks related to:" section on the sidebar) are of most interest to us? Justify your answer.
-I think the most interesting topics to us would most loikely be technology, design, and entertainment. I think these would be interesting to us in engineering because we are problem solvers, and these topics revolve around problems that we could possibly solve.

4) Based on your previous answer, what are 3 talks (videos) on the site that appear like they would be of most interest to you as an Engineer/Problem Solver? Justify your choices.
-Three other talk videos that seem interesting to me as an engineer would most likely be: The Birth of a word, because it is interesting to listen to this topic. Inside the Egyptian, because it is a sacred area that I would like to know more about. Another interesting thing to me as a problem solver, would be The rise of Personal Robots. This topic seems interesting because its something cool that could be implemented in the future.

5.) Bulletpost on the video.
-Talks about a new theory of gravity.
-Talks about Einsteins Theorys.
-Talks about a 4 dimension theory.

6) How could you get involved in the field/technology/issue you chose to hear about? What experience/skills/training/education would you need to learn to get involved with this field?
-This field definately revolves around theories and philosophical ideas. For me to get involved in this I would need to take science courses really serioulsy and take a physcology course. I would probably need to go to college for physcology and get a degree in sciences.