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This is my blog page. Here I post blogs about my work in the SAMOHI PLTW Engineering program and information about the current project I'm working on.

8/31/23

Over the summer, I took a physics class at SMC. I also went to Hawaii with my family for vacation. This year in engineering class, I'm most excited about the JPL project, while having fun and learning. This year overall, I'm looking forward to making new friends and having fun.

10/03/23

I think our entire JPL team is all collaborating well, we seem to be friendly and close. We are generally productive when we need to be. We have a dead set idea for the JPL challenge, which should be pretty simple to construct once we get the materials. Not much else is happening in my life, I'm working on college applications so that's eating up a lot of my time.

12/11/23

My top 2 favorite structures from the Gingerbread Challenge are Van De Kamp's Bakery because it's intricate and Hogwarts Castle because it's cool to see something from a movie come to life. If I were to build something, I would build the Sydney Opera House because it's iconic and has curvature that is impressive. I would probably use hardened frosting.

2/26/24

I thoroughly enjoyed the field trip to Aerospace. It was nice how everyone was so accommodating and excited to teach and learn, and it's certainly a good environment to see as a student.

Aerospace's Lithium-ion Battery Deorbiter will help reduce space debris by utilizing the batteries that are already on satellites. It works by activating thermal runaway through a nozzle to generate thrust. The advantage to this process is that there would be no added weight on the satellites.

June 29, 1916 - William E. Boeing builds and test-flies his first aeroplane, the "B&W" trainer

With my renowned interest in planes, I finally created something of my own - I call it the Boeing Model 1 (or B & W Seaplane). Its 52 foot wingspan dwarves all humans that come in contact. My plane has a more powerful engine than all that has come before it, and better pontoons as well. I'm thinking of founding an airplane company very soon, and perhaps an airline. I have plans to revolutionize the air travel industry.

5/17/24

This year, I am most proud of our JPL team for coming up with and executing an efficient design to give us success in the competition. I am also proud of my capstone team for completing all the work necessary to get a working robot and making our idea come to life.

Some advice that I would like to pass on to incoming PLTW academy students is to pursue what you are interested in and have good people around you. I highly encourage 9th grade students to continue down the PLTW path because it gives you a lot of freedom and is certainly the most unique and fun class you will ever take. I wish my friends and I had more knowledge of the academy class, like perhaps a tour for 9th graders to get them interested - many of my friends expressed how cool they thought this class was but never even knew that it existed.

My plans for next year are to continue learning about the world through college and perhaps incorporate elements of engineering, the scientific process, and research that I learned this year.

I would tell my younger self to keep pursuing engineering heavily because ultimately that's what I like to do.