today, all the welding stations were being used up, so we didn't get to do any welding all period. it was kind of a waste of a class period, but we will come in during 6th period to get some more welding done. hopefully our bridge get finished by tuesday, i'm kind of worried about our prgoress. we've completed almost all of both sides of the bridge ( Read more... )

day 2 of welding, things are going pretty good, we aren't as far as the other groups, but i'm sure we'll get things done in time for testing. and also, i still hate welding.

today has been a fun filled welding day. most of the day i cut metal and assisted with welding. i also learned that i extremely hate welding because it's really scary.

today, we were going to weld, but all of the stations were being used, so we cut more pieces all day. also, i learned that the small cutters are murderers that like to kill your hands until they are dead and gone. it also likes to pinch your stomach and make it hurt really bad. another thing, don't let go of one side of the steel to help someone ( Read more... )

we talked to mr. linman about which pieces we should cut a fourth of an inch off of and he told us we should cut our base pieces first and then figure out were to go from there. while rosie cut the steel, i filed the end down to be flat and rony bunched them together in each length. i learned that it's much easier to file them with the file flat ( Read more... )

mr. linman brought us downstairs and showed us how to weld. we messed around with a couple pieces of steel to get the hang of it. jessica talked to mr. linman about our overlapping pieces on our spaghetti bridge and what to do about them. he said that if we cut it exactly as the bridge design program said to cut it, our bridge would end up being ( Read more... )

today we finally finished our spaghetti bridge. i am glad we are done with it and i am ready to start building our real bridge.

we have spent all of the day glueing our two sides of the spaghetti bridge together. no problems so far...

the rest of the group worked on the spaghetti bridge while i worked on vocabulary assignment, so when people talked about bridges, i would understand what they were talking about.

added two pieces that made our bridge a lot more stable. then we calculated exactly how much "steel" we need to build our bridge. once we figured out everything, we showed our proposal to linman. he accepted and we started building our spaghetti bridge.