Fingers Crossed

We are hoping that tomorrow goes swell. We have yet to rehearse the powerpoint and we still need some pictures for the presentation, which Leilani is going to supply. We are finishing up our presentation and adding some requirements that we missed. Our bin is still functioning behind Leilani's dorm. We are going to input the data tomorrow and practice and assign slides for each member of our group. We also have to finish up our written report over the weekend. Leilani is going to try to finish up the exhibit board for our symposium tomorrow where we will be rocking the aloha wear. Composting is going smoothly and we're just hoping our presentation does as well!

Oh My Goodness It's Wednesday!

One of our hard workers :)

We're down to two more days until the big presentation. We are finishing up the presentation tonight and tomorrow and then we are going to rehearse on friday. We planned to wear aloha attire and hopefully our exhibit board will be ready for friday night. We have some results and conclusions to add to our visual presentation, but other than that we are pretty much done. I might change our Google presentation to a keynote however, because Google is giving us issues with adding pictures to the presentation. So, we are probably going to end up switching the presentation because it's too much of hassle and we need our pictures in the slides. On another note we finished our written report draft. We basically used our detailed design as a base for our report. We just added some paragraphs in construction, implementation, reflections, and conclusions. We also expanded and edited the rest of our paper to make sure it makes sense with what we are adding to the paper. Our paper is pretty good, but we need to expand a little more and add pictures to the report as a whole. We are well on our way to finishing this project up. However, we have a lot of practice to do before we are ready for the presentation on Friday. Hopefully everything will run smoothly till then...

Countdown... 4 days

Our composting in action!

Our project is kind of in a panic zone. We have some food composting, but we're hoping we get results for our project. We started a little later than expected, but hopefully we can see some signs of composting. Composting itself is a pretty simple process as long as we have all the right ingredients. Right now we have only been putting food waste and some fiber as shredded paper for the worms to see if they can still compost efficiently. We did read that they can have green waste like grass clippings, weeds, and wood chips, but our project is aimed at food waste so we were hoping the composting would still workout with food waste as the main source for composting. We had our visual presentation checked and we are in the green! We just need to add our final results and conclusions with some cool pics that we took and we're good. Tomorrow we are going to be working on our written report for friday and then work on specifics for the symposium as well. As far as I know, Leilani went down to the SPC today in order to recover our display board for the symposium. We are planning to have pictures and some key facts and findings that we have for our extra credit exhibit. As time is slipping away, we are working hard towards a finished product.

Finishing Up...

Today we are putting the final touches on our presentation. As we move further along into this project our presentation day is approaching much faster than any of us could imagine. We are 4th in the presentation order on Friday and hopefully we will be ready. Right now we are going over the rubric and Darcy is adding a few slides to our powerpoint. In the future we hope that our composting bin will benefit Mr. Hutchinson's hydroponics. When I return next school year I hope to be able to participate in some planting with Mr. Hutchinson.

The Final Push

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This week is the last week we are really working on our project. Our data collection has to be finished and so does our written, oral, and visual reports. It's going to be a stressful week especially with all of our other classes winding down, but I hope that our ENTIRE group will be able to push through this week to wrap up our project. It's really getting down to the wire and pretty sure our whole group is feeling it, but we are striving to get a good grade on it! We have everything pretty on track right now, but our results will be really last minute since our project takes a while for much to happen. However, composting is a pretty straight forward concept that almost everyone knows about. So, it won't be too hard to show that it works as a composter and can be used in the future. This week we plan on getting some results and finishing up our report so we don't look like fools on stage :). Hopefully all goes well and our compost bin works smoothly. It's been one heck of a project that was truly something new and definitely healthy for a school like ours to take on and as a group we plan to finish strong.