My question was “How do engines work” and I think was a very good question because not many people know much about engines and I didnt know much about engines either till i started doing the research to this question. Not many people know much about vehicles and their engines and when they go to a mechanic and the mechanic explained what's wrong with that person's car, they should be able to understand what they are talking about. Although, some people just want to know because of their peak in interest in learning about an engine. I enjoyed this question because I could finally be able to understand what my dad is talking about when he talks about a cars engine.
I personally had a hard time with the research, I wasn't understanding much from random sites such as wikipedia. I didn’t really understand much of what they were explaining because they would name off all of these parts and I didnt know where they were at or what they were used for. I overcame this by looking at diagrams of a vehicle's engine and asking my dad more questions so that I could get this project finished and have a brief understanding of how a vehicle runs.
I didn’t do math in this project because this question didn’t have much to do with math. I have a hard time with math and this question doesn’t have much to do with mathematical equations. I feel that I could have done better by turning my poster in on time and finding a way to do a math equation and made my work more refined and look better. I feel that this has helped me in multiple ways by helping me to learn about how an engine works and could help me in the future by knowing what could be wrong with a vehicle if its broken down or if someone needs help understanding more about vehicles.
Inspire Week
For my Inspire week, I didn't get to do much. Our project was to make habitat for humanity a better website and make it more attractive to their costumers. Me and my partner Jaylynn didn't get to do much, however we did list off things that needed to get done on the website to make it more attractive. However, These people didn't want to do much to their website because it would cost a lot of money. So we couldn't do anything to make it more attractive.
Me and the rest of our team working for Habitat for Humanity, didn't get to do anything because the store wasn't very open to new ideas so we were all stuck not doing much.
I feel like this was a good idea to do Inspire week, but I have to say that we need more options to people who are open for change because we really didn't get to do much and it eventually grew to be extremely boring. I am very proud that I did this because I now know that just by volunteering to help people change something to make it better, I can be of help to those people and can show them a variety of ways that they can change something for the better.