Communication

ESS02.01 Select and employ appropriate reading and communication strategies to learn and use technical concepts and vocabulary in practice.

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Communication Skills for Stool Project

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When we started thinking about building our stool we the first thing we did was come up with our design for the seat of the school. This is the first picture I have and this took a lot more than just some abstract pencil lines on a piece of paper. We had use the a big compass to make the outside ring of the design that represented the ring that the design would sit in. We then had to use previous bent pieces of metal to come up with our design that we could get to fit inside the ring. This way we new how long each bent piece was and new how long we had to cut our pieces that we needed. This was not the same for the ring we had to use pi to find the length of the outer circle. We put this in a material list on the top of our stool design. This way were able to know how long we needed to cut our pieces which we used the metal band saw to cut. After we cut our pieces we used the scrolling machine to bend our pieces to our desired design. After we bent all of the pieces we welded them into our main ring and then started cutting pieces for our legs. We then welded our legs on to the main seat and cut and bent a piece for the supporting ring for the legs. We welded that on and then finished up our last welds and then grinded down our welds so that they were looking good. Finally we painted our stools being very careful to make sure to cover all the surfaces well. We then had our final project ready to submit.

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Woodchip Boiler

In class we went down to the mechanical room with Mark and Gary to learn about the boilers that heat the school. We looked at the wood chip boiler and learned about how it worked and how it saves the school a lot of money compared to the oil boiler. The wood chips save about two dollars a gallon compared to the oil. We saw all the new improvements that had been taking place with the new controls and all the new wiring. We also checked out the hopper which brings the chips into the boiler. It is a pretty cool system and how it all works and that it is a lot more efficient and saves money.

Crab Hot Plate

In the shop we had some random CNC animals cut out and we needed something to do with them. We decided to make some kind of plate where you could put something hot like a pizza. At first we were going to make it so the crabs made one ring and that would be the plate. Then I came up with the idea to make the crabs a flat plate and then make a ring around them so that I could weld legs to the ring. This worked a lot better because it made it a lot stronger and I think it looked a lot better with the ring around the outside. We also made the legs out of fish cutouts which we then bent so that it would sit flat and stable on a table. Overall the plate came out really good and it was really cool after it was all done.

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