Biodiesel Afterthoughts

Blog Post #3

Looking back over the whole biodiesel unit, It was a fun, quick easy unit to cover and have a 'fun' little project over rather than a test. Over the times I had spent studying and watching multiple biodiesel films and talks about it, I realized just how much biodiesel can change our world.

Useful Links:
Biofuel Facts
Biofuels Fun Facts
13 Strange and Interesting uses of Biodiesel

Movie Making Madness

Blog Post #2

The past week(s), our lives have been devoted to biodiesel. From making movies to racing boats, it's been a fun break from all the hard stuff that we've endured these past couple of weeks in chemistry. 

However the movie aspect was a bit fun, however my idea that I had planned out in my head, didn't quite work over so well as I had hoped it would. I had everything planned out and ready to submit, until it all crashed on me. I was a bit perturbed after that moment but realized I needed to do something quick and efficient. For the grade that I got, I thought I did good for putting something together in a time span of about 20 mins. 

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In conclusion, it was a pretty fun time being able to mispronounce words over and over again, and having to realize that after 14 years of trying to sing, I still can't sing. 

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Useful Links:
TED Talk-Biodiesel
biodiesel.org
Biodiesel Basics

Put Put Racing

Blog Post #2

Continuing on with our biodiesel unit came the culminating news. We had to build a boat. I'm not much of a boatitecht (get it...architecture but boats instead?...) but I knew that it wasn't going to go well. Of course I had multiple ideas running throughout my mind of what I wanted to build my motor around. I wanted the most efficient and fastest way possible.

My dad was a huge part in this project, because he helped me get the basis of my boat started up, and my partner and I were able to take off from there. The block scheduling had really come in handy as the 90 minutes that we were given to test run our boat and make changes had greatly benefited us.

Overall, our boat was considerably fast compared to all the classes. Watching it cross the finish line in 16. something seconds was a bit of a rush as knowing that my partner and I had accomplished something that we both had viewed as a challenge. 

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