1) What was your project …. Provide a 2-3 sentence description of what it was supposed to be and its intended impact on your audience, however that was defined.
Our project is a interactive model of all of the planets magnetic fields and the the magnetic field of the sun. we are using what is called a ferrocell to model what they look like. A ferro cell is the mixture of ferrofluid and wd40 spread between two panes of glass or acrylic with led lights below it.
2) Reflect on the project …. What new content ideas did you learn? How did you understanding of astronomy expand as a result of this work?
We learned a lot about the magnetic fields and what they do for the planets. How they work is something that i did a bit of personal research of but in our presentation we didn't talk about that. We did some research about why some of the planets have offset poles and other things along those lines.
3) What did you learn about project management? What went well for you in this process? What were your struggles? We learned that we need to do a lot of brainstorming before we start. We learned that big words like magneto-hydrodynamics doesn't work for my group. We eventually figured out our presentation with a bit of hep from max
4) If we were NOW in mid-project and NOT facing the end of school, what would be the next steps you would take with your project? How could you more closely attain your learning targets?
IT would be to either begin designing a system that can show the suns ever changing magnetic fields or work on a system to make it so that the ferrocell an have the “planets” inserted into the middle. That was our biggest challenge and one of the only ones we did not overcome