For The World's Fair project, my group was given Chicago as the topic of our project. I learned a lot of interesting facts about things that have happened in Chicago, including discoveries and inventions. I learned about Chicago through the process of researching. One of the things that struck me was that Chicago was the home of the discovery of the speed of light and also the discovery of Insulin. Chicago was also the birthplace of more everyday items such as Wrigley's Gum, the zipper, and the vacuum cleaner.
The item we recreated was the ferris wheel. We chose this item because it was debuted int he Chicago's World Fair in 1893 and we thought it would be an interesting item to recreate. I was glad that we chose this product because I think that ours was the only one that actually moved on its own, I also think that it was an item that was really easy to distinguish and recognize.
Our prototype process was fairly easy. We simply took the measurements we had for our final product and scaled it down. We also simplified it a bit by not adding any motor, but we still made it be able to move manually. It was helpful because we were able to see where we wanted to stabilize the final product and we were able to see if we needed to add anything to the final product, like a shelve type of thing to hold the motor and battery.
One country I would want to learn more about would be France. One reason why is because they had the Eiffel Tower as their main product and that is one of the most iconic structures in the world. I would be interested to learn more about the history of the tower itself and about the impact it had on France. I would also like to learn more about the culture because I heard some interesting things about it, such as the importance of art.
I feel proud of my booth, product and overall participation at exhibition. I think that our booth look put together and the overall theme was clear. The booth was simple which I liked because it didn't feel cluttered or like we were trying to add more things than necessary. Our product was really good. I was really proud of it. It was fully functional during exhibition until the very end, but even then you could still manually spin it. I participated throughout the entire exhibition. I was at my booth 80% of the time and was talking to people about Chicago during that time. I think I articulated my thoughts well to the people who came to our booth.
I think exhibition went really well because it was interactive. The people who came seemed to have fun looking at all of the different booths and us as students also had fun. It wasn't like other exhibitions where you felt like you were just telling people facts, bu tmore like you were having conversations.
The item we recreated was the ferris wheel. We chose this item because it was debuted int he Chicago's World Fair in 1893 and we thought it would be an interesting item to recreate. I was glad that we chose this product because I think that ours was the only one that actually moved on its own, I also think that it was an item that was really easy to distinguish and recognize.
Our prototype process was fairly easy. We simply took the measurements we had for our final product and scaled it down. We also simplified it a bit by not adding any motor, but we still made it be able to move manually. It was helpful because we were able to see where we wanted to stabilize the final product and we were able to see if we needed to add anything to the final product, like a shelve type of thing to hold the motor and battery.
One country I would want to learn more about would be France. One reason why is because they had the Eiffel Tower as their main product and that is one of the most iconic structures in the world. I would be interested to learn more about the history of the tower itself and about the impact it had on France. I would also like to learn more about the culture because I heard some interesting things about it, such as the importance of art.
I feel proud of my booth, product and overall participation at exhibition. I think that our booth look put together and the overall theme was clear. The booth was simple which I liked because it didn't feel cluttered or like we were trying to add more things than necessary. Our product was really good. I was really proud of it. It was fully functional during exhibition until the very end, but even then you could still manually spin it. I participated throughout the entire exhibition. I was at my booth 80% of the time and was talking to people about Chicago during that time. I think I articulated my thoughts well to the people who came to our booth.
I think exhibition went really well because it was interactive. The people who came seemed to have fun looking at all of the different booths and us as students also had fun. It wasn't like other exhibitions where you felt like you were just telling people facts, bu tmore like you were having conversations.
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