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Cheyenne Abrams
LATEST PROJECTS
The Boats
The Mega Super Awesome Boat Race!!
For our first project, which happened during the first few days of school, we were paired with three other people and told to build a boat. But there was a
catch, it had to be out of cardboard, duct tape, plastic, and built in three days. Our personal prototype failed four times, but finally we made a successful one. When it came to the final product it floated, the oars just didn't work
Building a Website
The Stress Filled Promoting it CCFP Website
The second project took on was to make a website for the Carroll County Food
Pantry. This was supposed to be a group project but I turned out to be the only one to make it. It took days and days to make along with countless hours of stressing but it turned out to be an amazing website. You can check it out here.
Teaching Kids
Small Children Make Chains
A few people and I went to our local Primary school and volunteered to help run a science day. We had a booth with a topic to teach the kids. My partner and I
had the topic "Food chains and Food webs, How do they work." During this we taught the kids about what food chains and webs were along with how they worked and why they were important.
Instant Fling Machine
Destroy, rebuild and.... FLING!!
In Introduction to Engineering we had a full week and a half to build a catapult with our predetermined groups. We first built a prototype, shot it ten times, adjusted necessary parts then off of the
prototype we made a full scale working model. This project was very stressful but educational. I learned things such as communication is key and plan for the unexpected.
Interviews with Elders
Learn Wisdom, Interview an Elder
For our latest project we were instructed to interview someone older than us, much older. I chose my ever so wise
grandpa. We sat down and I asked him a series of questions, he then answered them as best as he could. Ten minutes later I had a full interview with the smartest man I know. This taught me that as you get older you do learn more and more.
Ornaments
on their tree
Christmas Spirit and Other Things
On December 16 raised spirits and made smiles with hand made ornaments. We traveled to 'Fairview' and 'River Reed' nursing homes to give our residents their
ornaments. The requirements were that the ornament had to have seven parts, be modeled on Autodesk Inventor and must have the residents name on it. While we handed out our ornaments I learned a few things; 1) five minutes of your time can make someone's day 2) Taking time to listen to someone's story not only makes them happy but you might learn something 3) When you have nothing anything means everything.
Maker Day
Make Something for You
On December 15th every student at iLEAD was given a break from Edgenuity to make something with our hands. They called it a "Makeday". The requirements
were very simple have a product by the end of the day that you made, make a video of it and submit it for review. I decided to create my Grandparents Christmas gift out of wood. It is a cross cut out of wood using old barn wood. I learned that planning is very important when designing and making a product.
T.I.G It
Reverse Engineering a T.I.G Torch
When given the project to reverse engineer an item that had more than seven pieces a T.I.G torch was not the first thing on my mind. For the project we had to find an item to reverse
engineer, create every part on Autodesk Inventor, make a presentation on a trifold board and present it at Exhibition Night. It wasn't the easiest project to complete on time or to complete in general but during the rush I learned a couple of things; 1) exactly how a T.I.G torch works and 2) Do not procrastinate with Autodesk Inventor because it will without fail crash and delete everything.
State
TSA
Three Day Vacation to TSA
On April 24th, 46 students and 2 two teachers loaded their luggage under a school bus. 30 minutes later we were on our way to the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Louisville Kentucky for the Kentucky TSA
competition. We would spend three days in the hotel individually or as a team competing against others. I personally would be competing in three events: Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Engineering, Video Game Design, and Webmaster. Our team for Webmaster was dis1qualified due to technical difficulties. Along with this neither Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Engineering or Video Game Design were winners. Despite not winning awards this was a great leadership and learning opportunity for me. I will definitely make it a tradition to go!
English
Project
Harry Potter and the English Essay
For English Language Arts we were given the option to read a book and do a project on the book and have some edgenuity taken off. I decided to take advantage of this opportunity and wrote an alternate ending to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and to also compare it to the actual ending. I also explained how each ending impacted the rest of the series.
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