Today I am going to report on a new jacket. It is something every girl might want. It’s a rape alarm jacket. I love the color (RED) and it has a solar panel sewed into it. You pull the alarm when you want help. And you never have to worry about the batteries going out. …
Two Great GET City Projects!
E has been working on how to make a solar powered shoes. She has been working on this for the past couple of months. J and E have been working on a heated jacket and their heated by solar and re-chargeable batteries. To me I think they have had fun making this. Also for E’s …
Powering up
We are trying to figure out exactly how to power our rape alarm jacket with a solar panel. We’ll either have rechargeable batteries in the jacket that can be charged later with a solar panel, or we will put solar panels on the jacket. Our big questions are how much energy does this alarm need, …
A fashionable and sanitary option for when you are sick
Some of you already know (from the earlier post) I have been working on duct tape fashion line. I have hats, ties, and other accessories. My necktie thermometer is a much more sanitary option than the kind you put in your mouth or ear. The necktie will constantly monitor your temperature so that if you are in the …
Starting our prototypes!
We are starting to build our engineering design prototypes. One of the safety issues I have identified is tripping over untied shoes. I think this important for little kids and for older people, like my gramma. I thought it would be good if we could find an easy and kind of cheap way to make …
Decomposing our engineering designs
Today we tried to take some next steps on our invention. We had to split our inventions into four parts: What we are powering? What is our power source? How will we store our power? How will we connect everything? For our phantom jacket, we really want to have some cool lights. We were surprised …
Feedback cycle day!
We presented our engineering designs today to a panel of experts. We wanted to get feedback on how build the power part of our designs and other technical parts. My design is a duct tape thermometer. Im actually a duct tape expert. I made the hat I’m wearing today. I have also made a cell …
Fun Science … Fcience!
One of the Making 4 Change things we do is make our own websites. So today, we want to tell you about our website! What we want to accomplish in our website is to help other children do fun science (or Fcience!), if it is for school or if it is just for fun. We …
A light up umbrella
Right now, P’s favorite idea for a new design is a light up umbrella. She picked this idea because it is a safety issue that came up in the surveys. She said that people need to see better when it is dark from night time or from the clouds. She also wants the umbrella to have a …
Analyzing our surveys
We ended up getting 62 survey responses last week! Thank you everyone! Today we analyzed the responses to figure out what the surveys were telling us. We know we want to come up with some inventions around safety. But we didn’t really know what people in our community mostly cared about. Our group noticed that the …
