FINAL BLOG

After a long, grueling 4th Quarter, we're finally done. I never thought we would have spent a whole quarter finding, creating, cooperating, and presenting our own Physics project. When we were first given the task, I thought that it was going to be boring, and easy. I would input my ideas, and let the rest of the group expand, and finish the project. But when we were put in a situation where if one member didn't pull their weight, everyone in the group fell behind. I liked the idea of finding, creating, and solving our own problems and solving them through physics; but we all know now that not all the problems in the world can be solved through physics. What I believe went well throughout the project was our group's ability to work around, and problem solve all the road blocks that showed up as we went along. Our group was able to change our whole project, and solve that new problem overnight. The hardest part, or the parts that didn't go so well, was the actual creation part of the project. Our group had many communication problems, and we all had this  "I'll do it when I can" attitude, which caused us to fall behind on many blogposts, and we just went with the flow. If we didn't have something done we just did it as soon as we could. Which is still good, but we could have cooperated more as a team. What I learned was that when we finish High School there will be millions of problems, and we'll have to choose which ones we will overcome. And when we choose those problems we have to be all in on solving them, if not it won't work out. Also, it's easier working in a group because you have other people to rely on. If someone wasn't able to, or forgot to do something, we worked as a group to make sure it got done as soon as possible.
If there was one thing I could've changed about this project, it would be the longevity of it. If this project was on-going, throughout the year. Our group's would have more time to find problems to solve, create better ideas, and create those solutions. Also, group's could collect more data, and actually see what is going right, and what is going wrong with their solutions. Which we could then fix, and see over a longer period of time if our solutions are actually working, and whether or not our solutions are making Kamehameha a better place.
Most people don't see this project as being the "Science" that we learn in classrooms, but to be honest, everything we did was science. Science is based on the Scientific Method, and each group had to go through each step to accomplish their solutions. Almost every aspect of what we did could be, or is in some way Physics/Science related. With a few modifications this project would be way more awesome. Hopefully more students will get a chance to experience what we did.