My last contribution to this lovely blog

    

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        Hello everyone :). I am here to give my last goodbyes to a project as unique as the teacher. I thought this project was completely different from any high school experience I have ever had, but hopefully future students of Kamehameha won't think that as time goes on. It was unlike anything I've even come across in school, where the students actual make the change and not just complain about it. Although, there was some bumps in the road for every group, I think this project was necessary and educational. Although admin might say that it 's not teaching us concepts of physics, the students are getting hand on experience with the real world and how change is perceived by many different people. Overall, it was a great project that taught us the bigger picture of physics instead of the small ones that we would've forgotten two weeks out of school :),
        Some of the things that went well were implementation, design, proposal, and brainstorming. These four elements of our projects went relatively fast and smooth without much conflict. However, the things that didn't go as planned is the construction time, construction manner, blog posts, and results. The construction aspects just took longer than expected and we had a few needed nuts and bolts for construction. However, since the amount of dirt and worms we had were minimal we were able to rotate with only one clasp. The blog posts were kind of infrequent and the results turned out smaller than at first predicted in our proposal.
       I learned a good deal about worms and their role in composting as well as composting as a whole. I also learned large amount about hydroponics and sustainability from Mr. Hutchison. I learned about cooperation, teamwork, troubleshooting, and leadership from my fellow group members and Mr. Blake. So, overall, it was a very educational experience filled with hard work, discipline, and "getting down to work".
       This project is pretty awesome, but if I could change anything I would ask for the A.C. to be turned down in the auditorium because I was literally shaking and freezing my butt off, even when we were speaking.  I also think that blog posts should be every other day with the schedule so that we only write on days we have class because most of the time we didn't do anything on the odd days anyway. However, other than that it was a complete success in my eyes.

        I certainly felt like we were doing science this past quarter. The whole theme of worms, decomposition, producers, and nutrient production (food break-down) brought me back to biology and the construction was all physics baby. Our project consisted of much research and experimentation, which was science in general. So, I think that, we have undoubtedly been doing science. Whether it was strictly physics or not, we need to learn application and the molding of all the science together like such in the real world. Physics is all about application into realistic situations, which is what this whole project was about and therefore everything is science related :).

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