Last week we were assigned our end of the year project which consists of a group of students to attend a high school in Boston and perform an experiment. I was selected to be the team captain for my group! My team consists of myself, Arianna, Mohamed, Jeremy, and Michael C. We split up our assignments for the project evenly so each member contributes. When we first started to brainstorm ideas about a possible experiment we knew it had to relate back to our class topic, energy and sustainability. Prof. Shatz provided the class with a few websites that contained possible experiment ideas. When looking at possible experiments we had to consider that we were presenting to high school students. Not a professor with a PhD in the topic. Mohamed came up with an experiment idea that he had previously done and we could possibly do. He basically told us we would use compressed air to turn on a light bulb in simplest terms. The next class Mohamed created a powerpoint which explained the concept of the experiment better. Our group liked Mohamed’s idea and decided that would be the experiment we would present! Next we looked on Amazon to order experiment materials.

The second class, the 12th, our materials haven’t come in from Amazon so we couldn’t start doing the experiment. Instead we started doing our outline and handout for the experiment. In the outline we were able to figure out goals and objectives for the experiment. Next class we will put together our experiment with the tools we were waiting for.