Focus Story

Jamil El-Banna, a 45 year old citizen of Britain and former Guantanamo Bay detainee, is wanted by Spanish authorities for supposed terror-related offenses. After being arrested right after being released from Guantanamo, he was granted a bail by a Senior District Judge Timothy Workman. The British judge gave him a £50,000 bail even though he had entered Britain with a fake passport. While he was in Guantanamo for years, he was held with out trial alongside with Omar Deghayes, 38 and Abdennour Samuer, 34. They were also arrested shortly after being released from the Cuban prison.


(the picture is of his two sons protesting against Guantanamo Bay's unfair treatment)

Heat Shield

In class we worked on an expiriment called heat shield. We had a torch, some mesh, some tin foil, nuts, bolts, and sticks with screws glued to the end. We had to make a structure to protect the screw and the glue that kept it on. At first I tried one that was like a flower, but that just funneled the heat to the screw. Then i tried making a ball of tin foil around the screw and then mesh around that (without touching). That worked much better because the heat wasn't going through anything to touch the screw, they were all separet. We learned about convection and cunduction and radiation. Our longest heat shield lasted 4 min. and 12 sec.

Sound Measurment

Today Kayla and I did the sound lab. We didn't understand but we did get to wrapping the wire around the nail. Our LoggerPro wasn't working as well so we couldn't collect any data.

Body Power

My BEE: 730.24

My RHR: 87

My MHR: 120

Excercise: Jumping Jacks

My WHR: 120

%120=(120-87)/120 .275

My calories burned per minute: 1.5

My EEE: 10,800

My DEE: 11,530.24

My work: 14935.2

My power: 2570.60241

My horsepower: 3.445

I am confused because my robot won't go straight and I can't get it to go the right way. I worked on Robotix (downloading)

Culmination Preperation

Today we had some group issues because some people didn't want to listen to other people and I tried to have a group meeting, but not many people were listening. We never really got anywhere today but Kimmy and I switched because programing is my special forte.

More Robotix

Today we continued building a robot. We came up with some issues.
1. How will we get the object from one footish up to 28 inches?
2. How will we attach it to the robot?
3. How will we get it to be sturdy enough?

The next day we have labs we are going to have a team meeting