This was a very successful week. The days leading up to the forum were very busy with finalizing and testing our wheelchair to make sure that everything was completely ready for presentation. During this event, many people came to learn about our project. There was a parent who thought that our invention could help her neighbor's dog, who actually suffers from muscle stiffness. She was excited to visit our booth and envision, as we did, how this apparatus was able to assist dogs with this disability. When Jen came to see our project, she complimented us and loved how well we were working together as a group. Everyone who learned about our invention was very impressed and congratulated us on trying to help the community of dogs in need. The forum went very well and our group's hard work paid off.
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This week we took one of the biggest steps so far in this project. This week we started brainstorming and creating our prototype. On Thursday we went down the the DEW and collected a piece of wood. We also purchased some spandex and borrowed some wheels from the science room to begin. We collected these materials all the make a wheelchair that a dog with ALS can move around in while being easy to maneuver indoors. Also this week, we started to collect and finalize our data in order to complete our Canva poster, which includes our problem, data, and solution. This week was very productive and we are coming up to the finish line soon!
Welcome readers! On this website we are talking about ways that we can make your local buses more convenient. Our group is made up of three students. Lexi McCann, Chloe Stephan, and Josh Patterson. When we were younger our parents had to take the bus or train to get to work because they couldn’t afford a car. They were often late to work because of the inconvenience of the bus and how it was always late to pick them up. Our parents eventually got fired because their bosses got fed up with them being late because of the bus. So that’s why we decided to help people by fixing bus inconvenience. One of the ways we are thinking of making your buses more convenient is by the bus not waiting a one extra minute past by the time the bus is supposed to leave. So if the bus is supposed to leave y 3:15 then the bus has to leave at that exact time to get to the next stop on time.
Another reason why we want to make buses more convenient for you is because people are always running late to their jobs or school and aren’t getting the credit they deserve. We found this very unfair because its not the peoples fault that they train is late to picking them up so that’s why we decided to help fix this issue. week we changed our focus from bus transportation (specifically avoiding areas in la that are walkable) to animal transportation (specifically dogs with impaired movement). We wanted to narrow our new topic even more so we had two options: dogs with an injury or birth defects, or dogs with a disease.
We chose to focus dogs with the disease ALS.We are still working on a solution. In week #3 of our science project we achieved three very necessary steps to strengthening this project. The first main accomplishment that we completed last week was completing a paragraph describing and explaining the life of Boxer, a dog with Degenerative Myelopathy. This was a step forward to explain to the viewers the struggles that this poor dog. Another step we completed was researching more websites and articles to back us up with more information to refer to in the future. And the last main accomplishment was competing to two other blog posts to explain the progress throughout the weeks.
Welcome back readers! This week we are working on beginning to create our project. We recently were in contact with someone who has a dog named Nettle. Nettle was diagnosed with ALS a little while ago. Nettle now has a wheelchair with a license plate on the back that says Nettle. Nettle is able to do a lot with her wheelchair including going in the snow in not completely flat terrain. Although nettle can do a lot she isn’t as comfortable as she would be if she didn’t have ALS. Although we can’t reverse her disease we can make her more comfortable then she already is. So next week we are going to create a way to make dogs like Nettle more comfortable.
This week we changed our focus from bus transportation (specifically avoiding areas in la that are walkable) to animal transportation (specifically dogs with impaired movement). We wanted to narrow our new topic even more so we had two options: dogs with an injury or birth defects, or dogs with a disease.
We chose to focus dogs with the disease ALS.We are still working on a solution. |
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