Author Archives: Katerina Skripnik

Today Morgan and I did a “camp-out” at a four-way stop as part of data collection for the governor’s STEM project. We made it to be our trial run since we came across a few complications. We sat in the parking lot of Klein’s Dental and the only issue was that we were unable toContinue reading “Tuesday February 23”

Today wasn’t a crazy day as I continued to assemble and reassemble my car to figure out the best model and I also chatted with Morgan as we figured out the plan for our “stop sign camp out”. We decided on a place and time and thought that the best way for recording the amountContinue reading “Monday February 22”

Today Morgan and I got put into a breakout room with Mr. Wagoner and Mr. Snell to discuss the stem project. Together we looked over the rubric and then talked about what Morgan and I could do. So far, we have been unsure and confused with what exactly is going on but we got aContinue reading “Friday February 19”

Today I was playing around with different materials and methods for the car. While saving material, I created 2 different types of bases for the car/mouse trap as one is larger in order to see if size effects speed since normally the smaller it is the faster it goes. I focused on perfecting what toContinue reading “Thursday February 18”

Today I found more materials that I might need for the car such as rubber bands, cardboard, and CDs. The plan is to create a mouse trap car and after googling it I realized how many different approaches I could take. Just by changing a minor detail, it creates a different car. I watched YouTubeContinue reading “Wednesday February 17”

Today I focused on figuring out the idea for my car and I think I got it! I plan on dedicating this week to creating a working car. I already have some of the things I need such as a dowel rod and mouse trap. I still need to look around my home for theContinue reading “Tuesday February 16”

Today we were finally given our personal competition task: create a car that when placed on a flat surface, would be able to move to as close to 30 feet as possible without any outside force having an effect on it (touching/pushing it). I have a few ideas, lets see where they go.

I continued to look at more articles and came across this on, Taking a Bath vs Shower: Which Uses Less Water? (greenandgrowing.org, which compares taking a bath versus a shower. It starts off by breaking down the percentages of water on the planet and that again only 3% of it is fresh water but onlyContinue reading “Thursday February 11”

Over the course of these two days, I decided to see what existing ideas there already are about reducing water consumption and the idea of an angular tub. I couldn’t find anything that related exactly to our idea and YouTube wasn’t much help; however, I came across a few articles that provided “life-hacks” for savingContinue reading “Tuesday/Wednesday February 9/10”

Today I had another great chat with Morgan about where we are in our projects and our ideas for Stem. She mentioned that she was stuck as to what to do with her ideas and we decided that this marking period we will team up together! I’m pretty sure we’re going to pursue the angularContinue reading “Monday February 8”