Post date: Jul 21, 2012 4:40:59 AM
Eric is struggling with solidfying his topic. He is looking at pursuing the topic of fans (cooling without electricity) based on something he found on the web that suggested that a fan could be powered by magnets. David reviewed it and reported that the magnets could not power the fan alone. But the topic is sufficient for Eric to go on and pursue. I will not be here next week so I am hoping that someone will step in and work with Eric to solidfy his topic. At this point, he can have the students do a survey to determine how people cool themselves and then use those statistics to research and help people without access to electricity figure out how they can cool themselves. This is the challenge that the kids can pursue. He and I discussed this and I thought that was the direction in which he is going, but I have not seen anything on wiki yet.