Governor's Honors Program is a 4 week long course at Berry College over the Summer designed to give exceptional individuals opportunities in their respective fields not normally available in a traditional classroom. I attended GHP 56 in the Summer of 2019 as a mechanical and electrical engineering major. As a "meche," I learned more advanced engineering concepts, worked on various small projects, and completed a final design project with a group. 

For our final project, my group created an interactive, mechanical Chinese dragon sculpture from recycled materials. The dragon had only 2 motors that were used to control the head's motion. The main motion was controlled via a hand crank. Due to shipping delays and unforeseen time constraints, the final product is not representative of our initial vision. Nonetheless, it maintained its functionality and we were able to present it at the expo. 

The first design challenge we did at GHP was to create a ping pong catapult whose range could be calculated. My group decided to take an approach that used a rod that would ram into the ball in order to propel it forward. We chose this design because we knew it would be easy to adjust and control how far back the rod was pulled each time the device was fired.