KRM GCE Portfolio

In Design and Engineering, we have been working on our last AP for this term. For this project, we had to get a character that Adam assigned us and we had to design a new bike. We had three different people come in who work with bike companies and they talked to us about the type of bike they have, problems they have with it and reasons why they like the bikes. This was a partner project and my partner and I worked great together. We both did work and we made sure that everything was needed and all of the right information was on the right slides. Each group of partners got a person, and we had to design a certain bike for our character. We had to take a bike and add more things to it so that it could fit our person perfectly. When we were creating our bike, I decided that we should 3D print our model so that it could look better than a bike made out of straws and wooden popsicle sticks. Adam helped us with the 3D printer and I was able to finish the project. We created a slide show an...

This year, I am in a class called Design and Engineering. In this class we have been focusing on garden tools, empathy, sympathy, and apathy. We had to interview a gardener and ask them questions about tools that they use and how they would want for the tool to be improved in any way. We have visited Home Depot, Beyond Design, and we also planted plants outside of the school. For this AP, we had to choose a tool that was helpful to the world, and we had to make a better design so that it can be more useful and helpful for elderly people. When we went to Home Depot, I chose the pressure washer as my tool. I saw that there are different types of pressure washers and they all have different prices. The smaller the pressure washer, it is less money. The bigger the pressure washer is, it is more money. I also noticed that all pressure washers are used to clean different things. The smaller the pressure washer is, it has less power with the water which allows the machine to clean windows and...