Re-Inventing Romeo and Juliet/Roller Coaster and Revolutions:
A basic summary of our Re-Inventing Romeo and Juliet/Roller Coaster and Revolutions project would be a project integrating Romeo and Juliet with world conflicts presented through a roller coaster. We read Romeo and Juliet for Humanities and were received a certain world conflict to start with. The connections we made with the world conflict and Romeo and Juliet lead to the next part of the project where we turned those connections into a marble ball type roller coaster. The process of building the track through welding was a difficult one but we eventually made it. Math and Physics had us go in depth into what really happens to a roller coaster when it’s in motion. Whether it’s gravitational potential energy, kinetic, or conservation of energy, we learned how to calculate it and displayed it at the exhibition.
The moment during this project when I felt most accomplished would be the building and creation of the track of our module. I felt so accomplished when I finished the track, more than usual at least. The road to building and completing the track was an arduous and taxing road. The bumps, obstacles, and inability to move forward were some of the hardest I’ve faced. There was this major obstacle blocking me from advancing which was the complexity of the blueprints we made. No doubt that my group had creativity, but execution of the things that we planned wasn’t smooth at all. Most of the track complexities had to be abandoned and even with that it was still difficult to finish. The groups after and before us made it even more complicated as the entry and exit points needed to be met. It didn’t help us any further as the group before us was giving us two tracks with weird ending points. After a while, I finished the plans and started to follow them accordingly. The track eventually got finished and I’m proud of the handiwork that I produced.
Something that I can improve during the design pitch that our group did for the professional theatre workers and producers would be to improve my speech and oral communication skills. I said some filler words as well as slurred my words, so learning to stop those habits would greatly improve my part. The group as a whole I feel could improve on filler words just like me and including everyone. The exhibition for our project went well, I gave 200% of my effort and attention to the product and people. Although it went well, I feel as though we could prepare more. Some of the products weren’t fully finished which lead to some questioning from the people. Something that really did not go to plan was implementing the motors to fully finish our track. The extra boost and energy was what we needed to make our coaster functional. We spent some time debating how long it would take to finish and the after effects on if it failed. We wanted a presentable backboard for the exhibition and the motors would deny that because we needed to saw out a hole for the motor. Something that could make it even better would be if we could find a way to add extra energy so that the marble could go to the intended position. If not, then just find a way for the marble track on the bottom to go somewhere else.
A basic summary of our Re-Inventing Romeo and Juliet/Roller Coaster and Revolutions project would be a project integrating Romeo and Juliet with world conflicts presented through a roller coaster. We read Romeo and Juliet for Humanities and were received a certain world conflict to start with. The connections we made with the world conflict and Romeo and Juliet lead to the next part of the project where we turned those connections into a marble ball type roller coaster. The process of building the track through welding was a difficult one but we eventually made it. Math and Physics had us go in depth into what really happens to a roller coaster when it’s in motion. Whether it’s gravitational potential energy, kinetic, or conservation of energy, we learned how to calculate it and displayed it at the exhibition.
The moment during this project when I felt most accomplished would be the building and creation of the track of our module. I felt so accomplished when I finished the track, more than usual at least. The road to building and completing the track was an arduous and taxing road. The bumps, obstacles, and inability to move forward were some of the hardest I’ve faced. There was this major obstacle blocking me from advancing which was the complexity of the blueprints we made. No doubt that my group had creativity, but execution of the things that we planned wasn’t smooth at all. Most of the track complexities had to be abandoned and even with that it was still difficult to finish. The groups after and before us made it even more complicated as the entry and exit points needed to be met. It didn’t help us any further as the group before us was giving us two tracks with weird ending points. After a while, I finished the plans and started to follow them accordingly. The track eventually got finished and I’m proud of the handiwork that I produced.
Something that I can improve during the design pitch that our group did for the professional theatre workers and producers would be to improve my speech and oral communication skills. I said some filler words as well as slurred my words, so learning to stop those habits would greatly improve my part. The group as a whole I feel could improve on filler words just like me and including everyone. The exhibition for our project went well, I gave 200% of my effort and attention to the product and people. Although it went well, I feel as though we could prepare more. Some of the products weren’t fully finished which lead to some questioning from the people. Something that really did not go to plan was implementing the motors to fully finish our track. The extra boost and energy was what we needed to make our coaster functional. We spent some time debating how long it would take to finish and the after effects on if it failed. We wanted a presentable backboard for the exhibition and the motors would deny that because we needed to saw out a hole for the motor. Something that could make it even better would be if we could find a way to add extra energy so that the marble could go to the intended position. If not, then just find a way for the marble track on the bottom to go somewhere else.