Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Imagine Tomorrow

Overview of Final IT Steps:

We have collected all of our materials and have just finished making the alternative fuel that the buses will be tested on. We have already done the control run of a bus running on diesel, but we still have the actual testing to do using the alternative fuel source for the bus to run on. We also need to make a trifold for our presentation, and we have made a line graph of the cost of making the alternative fuel depending on the number of gallons. We will begin to run the tests tomorrow at around 11 am. After all the testing has been done, we still need to make a graph showing the data we have collected. We need to update our research proposal and experimental design template, and will need to complete the second part of the research paper after our data has been collected. Another thing we need to do is to complete our future plan.

Self Assessment:

Team player:
9 out of 10, because I have contributed as much as I could to the group, although some people may have worked harder than I have on this project.
Creativity:
8, Our project did not require as much creativity, and it wasn't any of us that came up with the idea of attaching a sock (revised to a rag instead) to the tail pipe to measure the pollution emitted from the bus, which was one of the most important parts of the experiment.
Follow through:
10, I have did everything the group asked of me, such as getting more rags, calling restaurants for oil, and getting the vegetable oil over to Camas High.
Problem solving:
8, I wasn't as knowledgeable on the topic of our project, and I didn't have a lot of ideas that would help us overcome the problems we faced during our experiment. I helped think of some restaurants we could call, although all the ones I have called either didn't have vegetable oil or were not able to give us any.

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