Candid Student Reports

The following reports were written by members of Engineers in Training during the third day of the program. Some elements may have been removed/edited for various reasons, but the text that remains is in the student's own words.

Avery

Tuesday
I had lots of fun building bridges on the computer. My teams bridge came in 3rd we would have tied for first, but when our design got finished, it wasn't what we expected it to be.
Wednesday
Today we finished building our structures, that held up cups of marbles. We came in 2nd because our structure fell at 178 marbles. We also built boxes to compare, mass, weight, and surface area.

Kennia

I love thus camp

Kyle

Today we had a lot of fun finishing up our contest from yesterday and then we worked on optimizing the volume of a rectangular prism. I had a lot of fun.

Krista

I like all of it except doing reports. I think they should be optional. Because I have nothing to say, except that I don't like these reports.

Patrick

One thing I liked today was that we were able to create our own box and learned how to create a box with the most volume. I also liked that we were able to create our own structures with our own designs.
I think today was fine and I dont know how you could have improved it.

kai

Today we built virtual bridges on the computers. We had to make a bridge that heald 100 pounds down and 20 tounds to the right. We also build structurs out of strait pins and straws.
Today we tested our structurs that we made out of the straws.Out teams's one was the best--it held 180mabbles 14.4 CM off the ground. We also made boxes to see which one would hold the most sand.

ben

todat we had a lot of fun with our straw and ipn structures. our team won with 2592 points

Amay

Today we learned about slope, volume, and mass. We finished our straw structures, and tested the amount of wait it could hold. Then we made boxes and filled them up with sand. Overall it was a fun day.

Briana

Tuesday I didn't feel as stupid as I did Monday but today I couldn't find my volume. I still had fun though yesterday and today.

Victoria

Today at Shodor we had a great time. First of all we continued and finish our straw and pin bridges. It was very fun. Avery and I came in as second place! After that we made dimensional prisms and then measured, weighed (with sand), and plotted each of them on the coordinate charts using functions. Sometimes less is more:-) I had so much fun!