ENGINEERING  

1. What does it mean to be an engineer? 

       From my point of view , for me an engineer is a person who does engineering , their work is to 

       design structures for building things for example a bulding. There is one type of engineering that        they draw all the parts of the engine of a car on a piece of  paper so when the make it they have          instruccions to look at while they do it.

 

2. How has been your experience with your team? Has all the members worked?

       I have really liked working with my team as every one of us knew what we had to do , everyone

       had their own idea of how to make a windmill. Out of all the ideas we picked the best and more          economical one as the less material we used the better. 

       In my team all the members worked and colaborated with the activity so everything went well.

3. Have you achieved the goal? What was wrong? How could it be improved?

       I did everything they told me to do, i helped my team stick the things together...

       Nothing went wrong and there is nothing to be improved.

4. Have you worked as an engineer? Why? How have you felt?

       While i was working with my team making the windmill it quite felt like as i was an engineer              because the two university students gave us the material and that was it, from that moment we            had to start planning on how we where going to make the windmill function well.

5. Personal Opinion

      I really liked the activity we did as it was interresting, the two students who came to do the                 activity we're nice people as they were very helpfull at the time you needed help. What I liked             the most is when we had to test the windmills out and there we're some groups that i though they         would of worked better than our one but it turned out that they didnt work.

       

Clean up plastics from the oceans

Clean up platsics from the oceans

The huge problem in the ocean because of the plastics 

- These problems normally happen in the summer time when  there are a lot of people out on their boats ,having parties and throwing  their rubbish into the sea  instead of waiting until they are on land and put the  rubbish in the bin.

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- The causes of this is that all the living things that are in the ocean are dieing, because they eat the toxic things that people have thrown  in the sea. The biggest problem is that the animals get stuck in the rubbish and then die because they can't get out .

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Boyan Slat's story

- Boyan Slat was born in Holland on the 27th  of July,he is a Dutch inventor and entrepreneur who creates technologies to solve societal problems.

- He is the founder and CEO ( chieff executive officer) of "The Ocean Cleanup",which develops advanced technologies to rid world's oceans of plastic.

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- He first started by using a hand made net that he made himself, and what he did was put that net on the end of the ship so when they drove around the ocean so that  it would pick up half of the rubbish  in the ocean. After this project he started making it more advanced to be able to clean it up better.


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Explain his solution

- Boyan slat had the idea of making a large net that went all around the center of the ocean where the current occurs. With having that large net right in the middle where the currents occurs is a very good idea because the current pulls all the rubbish so when it all comes, it will go inside the big net, and with that we will reduce the numbers of plastics that are in that ocean.


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Opinion

- I think that Boyan Slat did a very good job as he worked very hard to acomplish this solution. If Boyan Slat didn't try to make something, later on the sea would be full of contamination with plastics and the would be lots of dead living things that live in the sea.

- The idea that i had, to try and solve this problem isn't as good as Boyan Slat, because the only idea i had was to  go around on a boat with a large net and grab all the rubbish, but it would take years going around the ocean to collect all the rubbish ,which would not save all the living creatures of the sea .