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Maker Faire RC Battleship Project
This post details the process in which my group (Nathan Caliendo and Toka Khaliunbaatar) and I created an RC Battleship for our 2024 Maker Faire project. Proposal In order to begin the creation of our project, we needed to get approval from both of our SELC teachers using an APA Paper. An alternate link to…
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Penny Hockey Project
This post details the creation process of my Penny Hockey game. Video Summary Design Brief Client The Glenbrook South SELC Program Target Consumers Children and parents Designer David Cha Problem Statement All children experience boredom, and many try to alleviate their boredom by using their devices. This can contribute to shorter attention spans and reduced…
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Lego Project
For the Lego Project, SELC students were tasked to create a Lego set, which not only helped us develop skills in 3D modeling and 3D printing, but also brainstorming, sketching, teamwork, and problem solving. In the beginning, each group of about 5 people brainstormed ideas for the project. Eventually, my group decided to create a…
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Product Improvement Activity
For this project, a couple of my friends and I formed a group and brainstormed ideas together on how we could improve a coffee mug. We came up with many ideas, both good and bad, and out of all of the ideas, we settled on insulation, ergonomics, and a suction cup bottom. The insulation would…
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Laser Engraved Lantern
For Halloween, SELC students created laser-engraved wooden lanterns. We began by creating a design in Adobe Illustrator and cutting out the design on a piece of wood. After that, we assembled all of the parts of the lantern using wood glue and a nail gun. We finished the lantern by spray painting it outside. After…
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Scientific Method / Engineering Design Process
There are many different types of engineering, but all engineering fields have one similarity; they want to solve problems. Although they try to achieve the same thing, the way they go about solving problems differs. Two of the most widely used processes and the two that SELC students use are known as the Scientific Method…
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Hispanic Heritage Month
Luis Walter Alvarez was an experimental physicist, inventor, and professor. Alvarez was born on June 13, 1911, in San Francisco, California. He wanted to be a chemist at first, but was having some trouble in school. So he switched to physics; a topic that he was more interested in. Eventually, Alvarez created many different radar…
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Introduction to Arduino
During the Introduction to Arduino course, SELC students learned how to use an Arduino. We have had many different projects that have spanned the course of a few weeks, increasing in difficulty the further we progressed. For each project, we used the website sparkfun.com for our code and circuits. We first simulated the circuit in…
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