Project Description
The goal of this project was to find a solution to solve a current problem in the world. I was in a group with Matt, Ben, and Nathan. We chose to find a solution to the California drought. In order to find a solution we needed to research information on the drought. We had to find out what causes the drought and what can prevent the drought. Our idea was to make a dry shampoo. This allows us to save water by not having to shower every morning and instead apply dry shampoo at least twice a week.
The goal of this project was to find a solution to solve a current problem in the world. I was in a group with Matt, Ben, and Nathan. We chose to find a solution to the California drought. In order to find a solution we needed to research information on the drought. We had to find out what causes the drought and what can prevent the drought. Our idea was to make a dry shampoo. This allows us to save water by not having to shower every morning and instead apply dry shampoo at least twice a week.
Concepts
Engineering Design Cycle: A process that is used to research and find a solution to problems. We used this to help guide us throughout the whole project.
Engineering Design Cycle: A process that is used to research and find a solution to problems. We used this to help guide us throughout the whole project.
Reflection
I definitely think this project is my favorite so far because we had a lot of freedom into what we wanted to do in this project and I was in a group with all my friends. This project included a lot of teamwork and collaboration. Since we were all friends, we collaborated well but sometimes we got a bit off task. Two things that I thought went well was researching and coming up with a final product. Our group ended up with eight pages of notes which means every person did two pages. I learned many things about the drought from all the research such as how much water some foods need. Our final product was a combination of corn starch and baking soda and a few drops of lavender essence to give it a pleasant smell. Two things that I thought that didn't go well was that we got very distracted at times and time management. While we were working we would be talking about our project then out of nowhere someone would bring up a different topic and boom. We were off task. In this project, we ran out of time so we had to do a lot more work at our homes by ourselves instead of together. Overall, I think this was by far my favorite project we have made because we needed creativity and teamwork and I am great at that.