Piano this season has really helped demonstrate my commitment and perseverance because with all my other academic and activity commitments, I have made time during lunches and after school to practice during school and after school. I have since had to have given up time with my friends to go and eat lunch but instead, I went down to the music rooms to practice my songs. I feel like doing this had made me a more organized person as it has allowed me to realize just how much time I can make available for my studies and activities if I am really focused on them. This has also made me realize my ability to commit to something as now I can dedicate a lot of time to something I enjoy, which in turn, can make more a better student as I can dedicate more time to studying. This has also proved to be a development of learning outcome 3 because finding the balance between academics, swimming and piano were difficult. Having to plan for each piano session and time for practices by myself was difficult but after a few weeks of experimenting, I was able to come up with a schedule that allowed me to practice piano, maintain my academic and swimming commitments.
Month: May 2019
EE day reflection
Something that I have learned, by adding more pipes in parallel, the induction braking force increases, which means that the more pipes you have, the better of a brake the pipes become. Something that I am proud of is that I managed to make the general structure of my rationale and figure out what I need to talk about, also that I managed to conduct some preliminary experiments on the effect of the amount of pipes in parallel on the inductive force. What I am going to be doing next is focusing on finishing up my 1000 words and to start collecting data for my experiment.
EE initial reflection.
I initially decided to choose physics as it is my favorite subject and it amazes to what extent everything can be explained. With this in mind, I narrowed it down into the mechanics of wheels and seeing how to improve sustainability. Which led to the question, how can the sustainability of wheels of cars be improved? I was concerned that it was too broad so after discussing with my supervisor, I had narrowed it down into 3 different aspects, how could I improve, recycle or replace wheels rather than focusing on the topic as a whole. This helped me come up with an idea to explore the effects of induction braking if we can ever replace wheels. Something that helped me along when doing research, is that I found an environmental agency that had already done experiments with energy efficiency on varying wheel sizes, which aided my research.
Service reflection 3
Here is a video of Alex and I interviewing each other about learning outcome 6.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yRK9YhFaAk&feature=youtu.be