The most recent project we've been working on is called Intellectual Absolute Zero. This project has been surprisingly different from all the other ones we have done in the past, however, it doesn't cease to be a very interesting one. This project was very mysterious in a way, yet, it was very fun to discover with my teammates. My group members were Paulina Sanchez, and Sofia Mertz. Both of them were such help to make this project possible. In my perspective we did good in terms of collaboration but there could've been some improvements, however, I still loved our outcome. We tried to all divide the work equally so we could all get the assignment done. We also gave each other sections to work with thing we mostly felt comfortable with so we could expect a better outcome. We read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, we made a presentation about a regime, we formed a zine of a topic adults often talk about, we learned about Thermodynamics, and created a Stirling Engine.
In regards to Humanities I got to learn many great things. We got the great opportunity of reading Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. It’s a dystopian novel, it is basically about a fireman named Montag, who lives in a futuristic place where books are outlawed and firemen burn any that are found. He finds a pleasure in burning and later starts doubting his life’s purpose, which turns out to be the beginning of his new risky road. From this book I learned that, we might be living in a rush, that we often forget about everything and we just flow through society’s perspectives without finding the story behind. We also got to form a presentation about a regime, my group got the Ugandan regime, taking time in 1971-1979. This country was ruled by Idi Amin, a very famous military leader that after gaining independence from Britain he formed a friendship with the new prime minister, Milton Obote. After some time Obote started to doubt Amin. Amin saw the situation and decided to attempt a military coup and seize the government. After taking over and forcing Obote to exile he declared himself “President- For- Life”. He initiated the most repressive regime in Africa’s history, he gave no freedom to people was responsible for more than 300,000 deaths. This actually also connects to F451 because there was someone in power that wasn’t giving the people a voice/ freedom to do something. In this class we also got to create a Zine about an issue adults often talk about. This was really fun to make because my group got to do something we all agreed to work on. We made a graphic organizer to plan our final product’s ideal structure. My group got to do Animal Testing. We all contributed with different things, yet it stated that we all disagreed with the topic. In my defense I got to write an argumentative statement, do a choice page and the censorship image poetry. What I got from this controversial topic zine was that, yes! we do need to talk about these issues not to only let our voice be known but to learn about others perspectives to come to a final opinion, that’s how we learn, there has to be an opposing side, as well as in F451 Montag after being influenced by the opposing side of the law he learned about how it was to live not obeying the ruthless law. I had lots of fun learning about zines and honestly I think we had one of the best cover pages (thanks to Sofia, an amazing artist). We also had great content which my other partner Paulina helped form, it was wonderful!
In respect to Physics we got to learn about Thermodynamics and Phase Diagrams. This was also very interesting to me. We got to learn how to find specific heat in thermodynamics in which we use the formula; q=mct. This formula helped us understand Phase Changes too. The temperature of a substance doesn’t change during a phase change, energy is either absorbed or released. There’s two that explain this, Endothermic (energy in) and Exothermic (energy out). There’s the change from solid to liquid, liquid to gas, and gas to solid. The formula, q=mc q=mct, can help us find specific heat. Q: energy absorbed or released, M: mass, C: specific heat, t: change in temperature. With this we can find the specific heat during any phase change, or any that are missing in the formula. In the Phase Diagrams we can find Absolute Zero, the lowest temperature possible, where particles have no motion. There’s Heat of Fusion and Heat of Vaporization. Heat of Fusion where a quantity of heat is needed of a substance to change its state of solid to liquid, Heat of Vaporization where an amount of heat is required to change the state of liquid to gas in persistent pressure. This connects to F451 because there’s characters like Montag who happen to be in a phase change, he is in the process of changing his thoughts of pleasure to burn to the ambition of learning and finding purpose.
In Engineering we got to make Stirling Engines. This were hard in some way but very interesting to make. It was difficult to make it work, but my group did what they could. These engines are very efficient, even though it’s not an engine we use today, we think it’s going to have a great comeback because of it. These engines start with a small push. The engines need a heat source, like warm water, to start and a cold source to repeat the cycle process. If you give a tiny push to the flywheel, the engine will start working. This happens because when you push it the heat will make the air expand moving into hot space causing the air go to the drive mechanism causing the drive pushrod to move the crankshaft. When the crankshaft moves it starts spinning which makes the displacer move down, this means that the displacer will move the air into cold space while the flywheel spins. When the cold source to pulls the displacer down removing the heat moving the air into cold space the process will repeat again. This engine was hard to make because we couldn't make the measurements right, the wires were really hard to bend, the epoxy would take a long time, the pvc pipe had to be glued right to the can, and we had to balance the flywheel with the wire and can. It took a long time because like I said before epoxy is a matter of waiting, it's a strong glue so we can't expect it to be dry in five minutes. The wire bending process was very hard, the main wire and the displaced wire attachment to the main wire was very stressful. Even though we had tons of things to get done our stifling engine would spin very easily, it didn't work but we did what we could. It was mostly as well the hole we had to make to the can, it was too high up so when the displaced went down there was no air going to the pvc so the push rod wouldn't go up. I had fun collaborating, however I think if we had right measurements it could of gone way better. This engine connects to F451 because this engine starts working with a little push, and in the story Clarisse just starts by talking to Montag which encouraged him to start a new search for a purpose and ambition to learn about books.
At the end we had great products and thanks to the collaboration found in our group we were able to get it done. We had a small exhibition at school before the actual exhibition, the one I wasn't able to attend, which was very interesting. We got to set up everything and got to talk to some students about our project. The students were very interested in the project and I had a good time explaining the things that we had done and their purpose. In my perspective, I think my group did really good. We all divided the work within the group so we could all get something done, and we planned things that we actually were able to include in different sections of the project. It was very different from other projects because it was more calm and we knew we had time to do this. We all collaborated to make a good outcome and I lastly can connect this to F451 because Montag and Faber worked together even though they were some failures they were able to find a good place to share knowledge with others.
In regards to Humanities I got to learn many great things. We got the great opportunity of reading Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. It’s a dystopian novel, it is basically about a fireman named Montag, who lives in a futuristic place where books are outlawed and firemen burn any that are found. He finds a pleasure in burning and later starts doubting his life’s purpose, which turns out to be the beginning of his new risky road. From this book I learned that, we might be living in a rush, that we often forget about everything and we just flow through society’s perspectives without finding the story behind. We also got to form a presentation about a regime, my group got the Ugandan regime, taking time in 1971-1979. This country was ruled by Idi Amin, a very famous military leader that after gaining independence from Britain he formed a friendship with the new prime minister, Milton Obote. After some time Obote started to doubt Amin. Amin saw the situation and decided to attempt a military coup and seize the government. After taking over and forcing Obote to exile he declared himself “President- For- Life”. He initiated the most repressive regime in Africa’s history, he gave no freedom to people was responsible for more than 300,000 deaths. This actually also connects to F451 because there was someone in power that wasn’t giving the people a voice/ freedom to do something. In this class we also got to create a Zine about an issue adults often talk about. This was really fun to make because my group got to do something we all agreed to work on. We made a graphic organizer to plan our final product’s ideal structure. My group got to do Animal Testing. We all contributed with different things, yet it stated that we all disagreed with the topic. In my defense I got to write an argumentative statement, do a choice page and the censorship image poetry. What I got from this controversial topic zine was that, yes! we do need to talk about these issues not to only let our voice be known but to learn about others perspectives to come to a final opinion, that’s how we learn, there has to be an opposing side, as well as in F451 Montag after being influenced by the opposing side of the law he learned about how it was to live not obeying the ruthless law. I had lots of fun learning about zines and honestly I think we had one of the best cover pages (thanks to Sofia, an amazing artist). We also had great content which my other partner Paulina helped form, it was wonderful!
In respect to Physics we got to learn about Thermodynamics and Phase Diagrams. This was also very interesting to me. We got to learn how to find specific heat in thermodynamics in which we use the formula; q=mct. This formula helped us understand Phase Changes too. The temperature of a substance doesn’t change during a phase change, energy is either absorbed or released. There’s two that explain this, Endothermic (energy in) and Exothermic (energy out). There’s the change from solid to liquid, liquid to gas, and gas to solid. The formula, q=mc q=mct, can help us find specific heat. Q: energy absorbed or released, M: mass, C: specific heat, t: change in temperature. With this we can find the specific heat during any phase change, or any that are missing in the formula. In the Phase Diagrams we can find Absolute Zero, the lowest temperature possible, where particles have no motion. There’s Heat of Fusion and Heat of Vaporization. Heat of Fusion where a quantity of heat is needed of a substance to change its state of solid to liquid, Heat of Vaporization where an amount of heat is required to change the state of liquid to gas in persistent pressure. This connects to F451 because there’s characters like Montag who happen to be in a phase change, he is in the process of changing his thoughts of pleasure to burn to the ambition of learning and finding purpose.
In Engineering we got to make Stirling Engines. This were hard in some way but very interesting to make. It was difficult to make it work, but my group did what they could. These engines are very efficient, even though it’s not an engine we use today, we think it’s going to have a great comeback because of it. These engines start with a small push. The engines need a heat source, like warm water, to start and a cold source to repeat the cycle process. If you give a tiny push to the flywheel, the engine will start working. This happens because when you push it the heat will make the air expand moving into hot space causing the air go to the drive mechanism causing the drive pushrod to move the crankshaft. When the crankshaft moves it starts spinning which makes the displacer move down, this means that the displacer will move the air into cold space while the flywheel spins. When the cold source to pulls the displacer down removing the heat moving the air into cold space the process will repeat again. This engine was hard to make because we couldn't make the measurements right, the wires were really hard to bend, the epoxy would take a long time, the pvc pipe had to be glued right to the can, and we had to balance the flywheel with the wire and can. It took a long time because like I said before epoxy is a matter of waiting, it's a strong glue so we can't expect it to be dry in five minutes. The wire bending process was very hard, the main wire and the displaced wire attachment to the main wire was very stressful. Even though we had tons of things to get done our stifling engine would spin very easily, it didn't work but we did what we could. It was mostly as well the hole we had to make to the can, it was too high up so when the displaced went down there was no air going to the pvc so the push rod wouldn't go up. I had fun collaborating, however I think if we had right measurements it could of gone way better. This engine connects to F451 because this engine starts working with a little push, and in the story Clarisse just starts by talking to Montag which encouraged him to start a new search for a purpose and ambition to learn about books.
At the end we had great products and thanks to the collaboration found in our group we were able to get it done. We had a small exhibition at school before the actual exhibition, the one I wasn't able to attend, which was very interesting. We got to set up everything and got to talk to some students about our project. The students were very interested in the project and I had a good time explaining the things that we had done and their purpose. In my perspective, I think my group did really good. We all divided the work within the group so we could all get something done, and we planned things that we actually were able to include in different sections of the project. It was very different from other projects because it was more calm and we knew we had time to do this. We all collaborated to make a good outcome and I lastly can connect this to F451 because Montag and Faber worked together even though they were some failures they were able to find a good place to share knowledge with others.