For whatever reason, Dr. Neato wasn't here today. We started by going over our grades with Mr. Miller, and then we split off to do whatever we had to do again. I ended up halping a lot of people print their longboards. For the most part, since I was basically done with everything, and was just waiting for the go ahead to start working on the storage containers, I was just playing around.
Today was the final graded uniform wear of the year for AFJROTC. During 5th period, we went straight into working on longboards and stuff. After helping some people print their longboards, Dr. Neato told me that I shold start working on my wooden longboard. Mr. Miller had my template, but he forgot where it as, and so I decided to just make the template again from the spare copy that I had in my backpack.
Today we had my first Wednesday Challenge in a while. The objective of the challenge was to make a paper airplane that would fly the farthest. Similar to most of the other Wednesday Challenges, one group would design the paper airplane, and another group would build and throw the airplane.
Wednesday Challenge 12: Paper Airplanes
Today we finished the Wednesday Challenge from yesteray, and then worked on longboards and stuff. One can tell that longboard season is fully underway because Dr. Neato started letting people ride around in the parking area next to the shop provided that we have helmets on. I was the 2nd to last person to throw their paper plane, Erin being the last person. I don't remember anything from yesterday's results, but I think my airplane flew a decent bit.
Today Mr. Miller announced the results of the Wednesday Challenge from 2 days ago. The winning group was not actually the group that made the ffarthest flying airplane, becasue they did not follow the instructions provided to them by their partner groups. Instead, the winning group was actually the 3rd place group. The farthest flying design was actually a paper ball, which is wierd because it completely goes against aerodynamics and whatnot, but upon closer inspection, we came to the conslusion that for such lightweight projectiles such as a sheet of paper, density might have more efect than aerodynamics on how far an object gles.