What I learned from the Projects

The first project I encountered was the toy concept project. The thing I learned most from this was the difficulty in developing a product that is not only entertaining for children, but also teaches them something educational, such as physics, calculus, etc.

The second project was the assembly production. Since I worked for nearly 3 million hours on the design of the new parts but they were never used, I learned that sometimes time is not always unlimited, so often products may have to sacrifice quality in order to finished in time. But I did learn how to use IronCAD enough so that I may use it in later situations in order to design products.

The Third and final project was what took place at the Meeting of the minds. The wind tunnel I created showed me that although you might try to make everything work, it doesn't always go the way you want. The goal was to get laminar flow and compare it to turbulent flow, however, we actually got turbulent flow. But through such practice sessions as our first in-class and second in-class tests, I was able to change the tunnel to make it better operationally. Then the two classes where we tested our projects with kids helped me understand how to make it more entertaining, while teaching kids something. Finally, at the meeting of the minds, I was ready to teach people about the wind tunnel. The feedback they gave was always kind and helped me to realize that teaching people and displaying a project is much easier than I had once worried.