No design Is A Bad Design

In the Junior STEAM class called Urban Planning, we learned about urban planning and it's history. I learned that urban planning is the process of an area developing. For the last unit of the class we  went on a Field Experience to look at the urban planning around Wrigley Field. This FE was a good example of good and bad urban planning it helped me to see what I wanted to keep away from doing during my action project. For our action project, we had to choose a place anywhere in the world and redesign it they we want to while also benefiting others. I chose to redesign my old elementary school, Northeast Elementary in Stamford CT. I wanted to make some changes to the playground area since the equipment only takes up a small portion of the space I chose.

               

The Parallel Between Connections

In the Junior STEAM class Urban Planning, we learned about Tesla and Edison and the War of Currents.We also stuided the difference between Direct Current or DC and Alternating Current or AC , and what they are used for in the real world. Then we looked into.how to calculate voltage and current in a circuit. For a Field Experience we visited a robotics shop to make circuits using wires and power a toy car's motor. To overcome this we just took pieces from each others boxes that we didn't need.

The Truss 3000

For our first unit of the Junior STEAM class Urban Planning, We learned about different types of bridges like truss bridges, suspension bridges and more. We also learned about the law of sine and cosine and Newton's Law's. We even went downtown to see the different types of bridges. We went to Maggie Daley park and went on the bridge it was my favorite Field Experience. My favorite was learning about triangles and how they are the best thing to build on, because it helped me, my partner LS and I with making our bridge as far as design. I am very proud of how the bridge turned out, it did take a long time to get it to dry. Our bridge was 61.4 grams and handled 41 pounds.