So the one and only iCheckpoint was last week! It was pretty cool, it was pretty fun actually, instead of being all serious. One of the people that graded our presentation emailed the iTeam afterwards and said not to get too worried about the presentations, they were informal and we could lighten up. So now we know for sure that we don't have to be all business. It's nice to know that you can relax and not be perfect. I tend to do better that way, anyways (in terms of giving a presentation)...
So the secret's out: we can do whatever we want in iFoundry. I didn't know that it was actually that, but I knew it was something close. That's cool, I like how we can be creative. The risk by the higher ups is that us students don't really have to do much, then... But trust me we are. I'm actually a bit worried if we are above our heads at the moment in ESS. Our project is very ambitious, but I am also really excited about the possibility of actually accomplishing it.
In eng 198, we had the demo day for our steam cars. It went alright for my team. We won the boiler competition, where the goal was to for your boiler to begin to churn out steam first. On the other hand, we came in last in the race. Something went wrong, and it's hard to pinpoint exactly what it was because of all of the variables.
It could have been because:
1. the steam didn't come out powerful enough from the boiler.
2. the steam was missing the turbine.
3. there was too much friction in the system, either the turbine or the rubber band or the front wheel or any of the axles.
4. something else?
Either way, we learned a bit about steam engines and how to work as a team and for the next project, I'm sure we'll do better.
By the way, I can't wait for basketball season!!!!
BRUUUUUUUUUUUCE!!!
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