New Years resolution blog post

My new years resolution is a list of things. First thing on my list was to not get in trouble. to achieve this goal this year i would do things like follow the rules and listen to my parents more and not go against everything that they say. The second thing on my list is to be nicer. To be nicer i plan on saying nicer things such as saying nicer things to people and be kinder toward people. the third thing on my list is to not be violent. I plan on not being as violent by not threatening my sister or hitting and punching her, i also plan on not being as violent by not being mean toward the rest of my family and my school mates because people often tell me that im not nice because i am constantly just hitting them and saying mean things and etc . Lastly i would like to be more focused on school . i would be more focused by not letting my friends and others be a distraction to my school work, i will also not let sports get in the way of my academics like i did before. But that is my 2015 resolutions.

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This website will be beneficial to me because it will help me prepare for college and universities that i plan on attending. I can use this website for multiple things such as planning ahead, making a schedule to help me now, researching colleges and careers i wish to pursue, and hearing what my peers have to say about getting ready for college. I have used this website before all throughout middle school. We used it to find careers that we would like to do in the future and take test that tells us more about our selves and more about things that would fit us in the future. This website is a good resource for any student that is college planning and can help in many many ways.

Technology through the ages

Technology: the study of the designed world. Used to solve practical problems and extend human capabilities. Developments in technology are evolutionary, and are often the result of a series of refinements to an idea or basic invention.

                                                                 

Impacts of Technology: are divided into four categories: social (the impact on people), political (the impact on policy and laws), cultural (the impact on human achievement), and economic (the impact on the economy).

Paleolithic Age: the Old Stone Age, occurred between 500,000 BC and 10,000 BC and is marked by improvements to diet and security allowing the population to grow.

Mesolithic Age: the Middle Stone Age, occurred between 10,000 BC and 4,000 BC and is marked by the domestication of animals and agriculture.

Neolithic Age: the New Stone Age, occurred between 4,000 BC and 2,300 BC and is marked by specialization, division of labor, and the use of math and documentation of concepts.

Bronze Age: the architectural period that includes combining copper and tin to produce bronze; occurred between 2,300 BC and 700 BC.

Iron Age: the architectural period marked by the use of iron and steel; occurred between 700 BC and 450 AD.

Middle Ages: the architectural period after the Roman Empire; divided into Early Middle Ages, High Middle Ages, and Late Middle Ages; occurred between 450 AD and 1,400 AD and marked by the development of tools of war.

Renaissance: the architectural period marked by the revival of classical influence and the sharing of ideas; occurred between 1,400 AD and 1,750 AD.

Industrial Age: the architectural period marked by the first use of complex machinery, factories and urbanization, occurring between 1,750 AD and 1,950 AD.

Information Age: the architectural period marked by information sharing, gathering, manipulation, and retrieval; occurred between 1,950 AD and present.

Balloon vehicle challenge

On Friday, September 5 ,2014 our class did the balloon vehicle challenge. During this challenge we had to design a self-propelled vehicle that will transport a passenger safely from point A to Point B and the vehicle must stay on the line the whole time. Our group kind of had a good idea of what to do. we figured since the vehicle had to go up the string then we can do a wind powered type design. The way we designed our vehicle was quite simple. We had one balloon and we attached a paperclip to the top as a zip lining mechanism so that it could get up the string, then for the passenger we had a Popsicle stick and put a rubber band around it and the balloon to serve as seat belt. lastly we cut the end of the balloon and attached a straw to it to project the air out. Sadly in the end our balloon vehicle did not work , it didn't even move but my group and i have learned from our mistakes and we know now how to build a better designed vehicle.

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Reverse Engineering

Reverse engineering can help you become a better problem solver and engineer because its teaching you to put things together in many different ways and make many different new things. When you reverse engineer you take old things apart to make new things that will better your life. this makes you a better engineer because you are familiarizing yourself with the way things work and constantly finding new ways to better the world in some form. that is what engineering is all about, creating new things, and bettering the world.