The following reports were written by members of Engineers in Training during the fourth day of the program. Some elements may have been removed/edited for various reasons, but the text that remains is in the student's own words.
Name: Susu
Comments: Today was fun.
Name: Caleb
Comments: We had did a project on bridges I was in a three way group we had lot of ideas some worked some didn't. We had to place the bridge on two books. Also we had a structure that was over 53 weights. I was very apalled of what we did but kind of seriouse at the same time.
Name: Kendrick
Comments: The engeneering class today alright. I learned more about tension and compression. I think i'd like to be a mechanical engeneer when I grow up. Shodor has really helped me learn alot. So far i'm having a great time.
Name: Will
Comments: the point of the day was when we blit blidings out of legos but it was hard becase they were sarp and are blit differently for the type of experament we were doing.
Name: Claire
Comments: Today is my forth day at shodor. Today we finished ploting our numbers from our box. Then we made modles from legos to see wich was the strongest. We had the strongest idea but our legs was defomed, so it broke early. THis was a really fun day. Garrett is a cool teacher Ican't wait till tomarow.
Name: Stuart
Comments: today we worked with the moment of inertia and legos making a model on the computer of the legos and then building the structure trying to find out how the moment of inertia worked.we also plotted some data continuing sort of what we did yesterday but with a few differences.
Name: Kala
Comments: The beginning of class today was sort of boring. We learned about graphing. After break the class was much more fun. We had to see who could build the strongest structures out of legos using the least amount of them. In the end my day turned out great.
Name: MSW
Comments: I thought that Mr. G could make the first "activity" more interesting. the sedccond activity was fun and we got to work with sam. sam is smart. omar was helpful when we were stacking them.