I''ve been taking a break from my project over the past couple weeks to focus on a research project that I'm doing for my English class called the I-Search. Basically, you choose a topic you're interested in, then you interview people involved in that topic to get their stories. Of course, I chose theme parks and theme park engineering. I've already interviewed two people; one who works at a company that supplies light and sound control systems to theme parks, and one who's an Imagineer (someone who designs and engineers rides for Disney parks)! It's been really exciting, and I loved hearing their stories about their journeys through the industry. I feel like it's really helped me get a better feel for what the industry is like. In any case, normal blogging should resume next week. Next I should be working on a sand-delivery system for the PVC pipes that doesn't spill everywhere (see previous week's post).
So you may have noticed I haven't posted any updates since October. That's not because I'm inactive, but it's just that the circumstances have been such that I haven't been able to go in and work on my project. First, it's been getting darker earlier, which makes it hard to go in and work during the day. I get out of school at 3:35pm, and the sun goes down around 5:00pm. This means that by the time I get to FabLab after school to work on my project, I only have about half an hour of sunlight left to work in. Also, I'm currently working on figuring out how to bend pipes, and I don't have all of the tools I need yet. The plan for bending them is to pour hot sand into the PVC piping to make it more pliable, then strap it to a jig to bend it. For that I need something to heat the sand in large quantities, and all I have right now is a small camping stove; so not quite enough. College applications has also taken up a large chunk of my time the last couple of ...
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