After being assigned our final project/experiment guidelines, we all broke into our groups to have a brainstorming session of what we would like our experiment to be.

I am on Rebecca Bernardo’s team and we decided that we are going to base our experiment around solar energy power and how it is more sustainable and a better choice of energy.

The purpose of this experiment is to teach our other classmates what we have learned in class in relation to energy and sustainability and put all our knowledge into an experiment that can demonstrate what we have learned.

We started out our brainstorming session by logging onto a few different websites to see what ideas we could get on how to start putting the details together to put an experiment together. We looked into wind power experiments and solar power energy experiments. We ended up decided that we wanted to put together an experiment that showed how well solar power energy works and how sustainable it is. Initially we thought of having a regular NXT motor run and then a solar panel car run against it and see which got the furtherest and how powerful solar power energy would be, but they don’t have the same properties and it would end up having a lot of error in the final numbers of the experiment. Since this would not work well, we decided to just put together an experiment on solar powered energy with a solar panel car model and show how well it runs and compare different distances and tests with it.

We are hoping to gain more knowledge on how to perfect the idea of our experiment when we go to the Museum of Science next week.