We Forgot Our Nuts...

Today was the second day that our group worked on constructing our rotating worm composting bin. Micah and Noah are working very hard and measuring precisely so that we dont make any mistakes. The only thing we need is nuts and bolts for the hinges on our barrel. Once we have that we should pretty much be done making it, Noah said he can get nuts and bolts for us. Did I mention that he is awesome? We are going with plan B on the placement of our worm bin, we will not put it back behind 'Akahi, instead it will be by the parking lot on the side of Konia. This is a picture of a graph of the food wasted at 'Akahi at lunch time for one week. YIKES!

Keep on Swimming

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Tomorrow our peer reviews so we should be finishing up on those tonight in order to be prepared to talk to Mr. Blake tomorrow and turn in our essays. If we have enough time then Micah and Noah will go down to the shop and work on the bin. We also found out that we are probably going to have to house our bin up at Konia and Leilani will have to bring the food up in order to do the composting. However, this will be better because then we won't have to bring up the barrel from 'Akahi and plus it will be ready for any upper campus teacher who might want to take this project over in the years to come. We are learning fast about how hard it is to get things cleared. However, we do have many plan B's that we can use, but we seem to be going on a pretty smooth path. Right now, while the guys are building Leilani and I will be working on how we can compost the best. I think tomorrow is a conference day for most of the time in class so we might just have to talk about what's upcoming for our group and how we are going to go about the final weeks. Unfortunately, I was not able to get a picture of what's going on so I had to use a google picture. Sorry Mr. Blake.

Getting Down to Business

Today was our first actual construction day because we finally have enough time to start on the project without the period ending by the time Micah and Noah get down to the wood shop. They took the barrel down there as well and are working on the base first. They have the measurements and should be well on they're way. Meanwhile, Mr. Blake suggested that we keep the bin up at Konia so that we wouldn't have to transfer the bin back up to Konia from 'Akahi when it was time. There was also the fact that it might be difficult to "allow" for the housing of our bin behind 'Akahi because of certain rules and regulations. Me and Leilani finished up our peer reviews today in class and kind of went over what we were going to do after the bin was finished. The next time we meet we hope to finish up the barrel as well as have our peer reviews ready to go. We also plan to finalize where we are going to put our bin as well as how Leilani will be administering the waste and registering the data for our project. Hopefully, our project will go without a hitch and we can start preparing for the presentation by next weekend. Right now we are on schedule and we hope that this project remains that way. Unfortunately we weren't able to get a picture from Micah or Noah on how the project is developing down at the wood shop, but we promise not to put a google picture so I put a picture of some school stuff that kind of enhance our lovely educational blog.