Daily Blog #37

Hey we are just one day away from submitting our final report and just two from our final presentation. I am really looking forward for Friday as we discuss and present our final products and projects. I hope it turns out well. We are going to see if we are able to keep the tables in Akahi for the remainder of the year and maybe even until next school year. If everything goes well we might be able to switch out more tables for the rectangular ones and there will be enough room for an extra lunch line. Anyways, wish us luck on our final presentation.

Daily Blog #36

The above picture depicts 'Akahi, which is where our group has been focusing on for this project. We needed a picture of the dining hall for our slideshow, so I took this one today. In class, we mostly worked on our powerpoint presentation, which will be shown during our oral presentation on Friday. Luckily, Joe uploaded it to Google Docs so we could all work on it at the same time. We are also trying to work on what exactly we're going to be saying during each slide so we can get a better idea of how our presentation will flow. We want to practice our oral presentation sometime before Friday as well, since it counts as our final exam grade.

Daily Blog #35

This is a picture of our status of our slideshow presentation. We are going to complete it during class tomorrow. 

As the due days continue to get closer and closer we are inching closer to the ending of the school year. Currently for physics, we are in the process of constructing a slideshow presentation of our Ho’oulu ia Kamehameha project. So far, our project has been going good. We have been able to introduce a change within Kamehameha that helps with space efficiency. We are also getting data that will help us see how much of a change there has been. Our group has been tentative with completing blog posts and with our final report. We have split up the final report for each of the group members. We are looking forward to speaking this Friday in front of our classmates, teacher, and administrators. 

Daily Blog #34

This past week, our group has gotten a lot done. We have replaced 10 circular tables with 12 rectangular tables, thus adding 16 additional seats to the dining hall. We have also turned all of our data from the pre-survey into graphs so that it is more easily understood. We also continued to work on our final report. Austin also time-lapsed the video of Akahi with the new tables. We will be playing this video as well as the one from before we deployed our project in our presentation. One thing we need to do this week is talk about the oral presentation. We need to figure out who is saying what so that we are organized. I feel that we have accomplished a lot so far as a group and worked well with our project.

Daily Blog #33

Hey guys so today we worked on our final report draft.  The project is finally starting to conclude, and we are putting the finishing touches to our inventions.  Looking back on this, I think that we did a pretty well working project.  Of course there wasn't that many physics principles highlighted within our project, we've grown a great appreciation for both the school and the staff.  We couldn't accomplish a lot of what we did without the help of Mr. Morris and the Akahi staff, as well as Mr. Blake and the full cooperation of the students.  We hope that our presentations go well next Friday and we get enough feedback for the dining hall to keep the rectangular tables.

Daily Blog #32

Today, my group collaborated about the upcoming events for this project. We are doing work everyday to help relieve stress in a few weeks. We are collecting more data and incorporating it in our presentations. Next week, we are looking to collect data of the overall ambiance in ‘Akahi. By now, the rectangular tables have been in affect for three days. We will leave the tables out for a week or so and then change them back to the round tables. We are going to ask the people who sit on the tables if they like or dislike the new tables. Also, we have found out that a group form period 4 is doing a change within ‘Akahi. They are putting hooks on the back the chairs for student’s bags and laptops. We are hoping that these two changes will have a positive affect within ‘Akahi.

Daily Blog #31

So the first draft of our written report is due tomorrow. We have a Google docs for it so that we can all work on it. Luckily, writing it is not that bad since we're "experts" on our own project. It's basically an overall report of everything we've done this quarter, which seems like kind of a lot. We've also been trying to work on our oral presentation, since it's coming up really fast--next Friday. The presentation is also our final exam, so we need to be sure that we're well prepared.