This week, I helped re-organize the electrical lab I have been working in. That was pretty fun because I got to see all these funny little electrical parts that had been hidden away in drawers. I also asked questions about the various tools and equipment that we were moving, and it was interesting to learn about all of those. There were several LEDs, resistors, and different types of boards for making circuits on. The various Eel parts, for the robotic eel, were also cool to sort through. The rubber covering used for the skin looked like seaweed; it was pretty cool! Seeing how they made that covering was neat, and I got to feel a piece of it. The lab looks really nice now! I also helped analyze data from the towing tank, which was one of my favorite things I got to do. I used a computer program to look at graphs formed with the vessel's speed and movement in the tank, and then made an excel spreadsheet for the bits of data I collected. I got to use some knowledge I learned in Computer Science to do this, and I learned how to use a new program! We ran tests on some batteries, and I made another procedure for testing if the batteries were usable or not. We had measured the voltage the battery gave off when not connected to anything but the instrument, and then we added a complete circuit and tested the battery again. Mr. Thiel drew out different representations of circuits, and I definitely gained a lot of new knowledge about different important variables in circuits as well as different types of circuits!
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