This special quarantine project had some fun features that made it unique and interesting to complete. It had a few different aspects to it, ranging from doing a great deal of research on how power is used in our everyday lives, to running tests with lemon batteries, to making our very own project involving energy. We had to do all of this from home and for my power project, I had to work with Evan Colenbrander, even though I couldn't directly meet with him. This made it quite fun to figure out how we would complete it, we finally settled on both of us doing a control test and each of us doing a different test. For the lemon power project, we were given a bag from Mrs. Vogl with some materials we could use in the project and left to make a power source to power whatever we wanted.
Lemon Power Project
With the materials received from Mrs. Vogl, I started thinking about what I wanted to power with my lemon battery. I settled on something I knew how to use quite well, a calculator. The details of the Lemon Power Project are in the document to the left and my lab write up on it is on the right.
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The videos of the Lemon Power Project working are shown below
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You Have The Power Project
Evan and I decided to base our project around creating the best coin battery possible. We used dimes, nickels, and pennies in tandem with vinegar, paper towels, and tin foil, in order to figure out which coin produces the most power. Our lab document detailing all of the information is shown below.
Reflection
This project was a fun and exciting experience for me in a time that seems to not be going the best, to put it lightly. I had a great time trying to think up of ideas for the Lemon Power Project and how to work together with Evan in the You Have The Power assignment. I think that I did quite a good job on the designs for the molecular models of the chemistry going on inside the coin batteries, as I spent a lot of time trying to get it correct. I also had a decent amount of motivation when most of the time I have very little, due to the project being surprisingly interesting. For the next project that I do next year, hopefully it will be in person and I am looking forward for the very hands-on style that STEM Senior Engineering has to offer.