8th blog post 

We have finished our Genius Hour Project. I ended the Project strong with a model, stand, and a stimulation.  I also ended the entire Genius Hour Project strong. But I didn't do much this week because I finished it the week before, but this is what I have. My model is better and cleaner than the last model. I made a stimulation instead of a poster. And I got the final cost of the job, including labor, materials, and research.  Although it does not use energy, it is still very expensive. With a grand total of $1,795,000. The question is, "Would you rather spend $1,795,000 on making the tswerll system, or spend 3 million dollars in economic lost, and thousand of lives lost?"

Till next- wait... this is the end... good luck my friends...

7th blog post

This week I worked on the shark tank costs. The worksheet that I did online, asked for the cost of my invention. The following is a copy of the shark tank worksheet prep... 

Shark Tank Prep

You are expected to present your claim, evidence, and some reasoning for your mitigation technology’s effectiveness (using your CER) and you must name a price (a valuation of your technology).

• Valuation ($) is composed of these 3 elements:
• Cost of parts
• Cost of energy needed to run technology-operating cost
• Cost of labor
• Directions: Using the table below and completing any additional research as necessary, work through each of these 3 elements to get a valuation (in $) of your technology. Remember, when you are finished, please add them all up for a total cost!

Cost of Parts	Cost of Energy	Cost of Labor
I. What materials will you be using? List all of them below. Ex: Copper, nails, plastic tubing Nails Concrete Pipes Titanium	I. What source of energy is needed to “run” or power your technology (if any)? Ex: Batteries, solar power, hydro-power None	I. Who is going to make your technology? Why? The sanitary department would make my technology because they make sewers and carpenters for the sea wall.
II. How much of each material will you need (for a single product)? Ex: 12 sq. ft of copper 1000 nails Concrete (depends on how much land) Titanium (depends on how much land)	II. How much will this energy use cost for one product? Explain your thinking. None	II. Will you have your team/company do additional research? If so, what might be the cost of more research and development? Research won’t cost anything because everything you need is there online, but the testing itself would take about over $50 dollars to test run it with all the needed material in a model.
III. Calculate the total cost you will be spending on each material. Ex: I need 12 sq ft of copper and each sq foot of copper costs $1 so it will cost be $12. Copper-$12 1000 nails - $14 Concrete (depends on how much land) -$90 per cubic yard Titanium (depends on how much land) $30 per pound	III. Could there be a more efficient energy source that you might use instead? Why or why not? There is no energy involved	III. How many people will be needed to build your technology? How long will it take to build? With this information, you can calculate what each person will need to be paid (at least minimum wage). There would have to be 30 workers to get it done quickly and easily. My invention could take up to 2 years. There would be no minimum wage because they would get a salary. Their salary would be 29K a year and 58K for two years.
IV. How many products will I need? Explain your reasoning. There isn’t really “how many” it’s how many towns on the coastlines want one of my product (tswerll system).	IV. What will be your total energy use cost? There is no energy in my product but for the power of the tools to make it would $1500 to get all the machine that we need.	IV. What is the total cost of the labor involved in the research, development, and building of your technology? The total cost after everything, it would be about $10,000+30,000+1740,000+ 15,000= 1,795,000

Total cost: 1,795,000

Although it is expensive, it is worth it because it can reduce the effect of a tsunami on a town. 

After finishing the prep, I was able to make a model of the actual tswerll system. 

A picture is provided below...

Till next time my friends...

Works Cited

http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Plumber/Hourly_Rate

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=drill&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Adrill

www.steelforge.com/raw-materials/titanium-forgings/

http://www.tsunami-alarm-system.com/en/tsunami-alarm-system/tsunami-alarm-system.html

http://home.howstuffworks.com/home-improvement/plumbing/sewer3.htm

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&ssui=on#safe=active&ssui=on&q=how+much+does+sewer+cost&* 

https://www.google.com/searchq=mitigation&rlz=1CAHPZT_enUS732US733&oq=mitigation&aqs=chrome.0.0l6.1688j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&ssui=on

https://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/30627

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disasters_by_cost

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/ng-interactive/2014/dec/25/human-financial-cost-indian-ocean-tsunami-interactive

https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-tsunamis

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/ng-interactive/2014/dec/25/human-financial-cost-indian-ocean-tsunami-interactive

6th blog post...

This week, May 15-19, I've worked on a simulator of how my invention works and I started to work on my final product shown through a model.

If you would like to watch the simulation, click the link below 

(don't forget to hit present in the upper right corner)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wABi6pCrUSxgFjpBlC7y9Jc5i0ZXKd2F5Ht8aCwoPUY/edit#slide=id.g1f4d933ff2_0_0

This simulation took me a long time because it was on google slides and you had to put animations on every object. 

Till next time my friends...

5th Blog post

Talking Points:

Give your DRIVING QUESTION - the one that encompasses your entire project. Use this as your introduction.

Step 1: Becoming an Expert-Science Behind Natural Disasters

How does it form? What are ALL of the environmental conditions necessary for my natural disaster to exist?

What are the costs-both human and economic?

Step 2: Current Mitigation Technologies

What technologies already exist for mitigation? 

Step 3: Your Mitigation Technology

What improvements or original technologies did you come up with to reduce the effects? Be SPECIFIC in exactly what the technology will entail. You can have a diagram, picture, etc. to help you discuss this.

Is it cost affordable?

What do you see your end project being? In other words, how will you create or share your idea with the world?

Pitch Project Requirements

Caused by landslides, earthquakes, meteor impacts, etc. 

You need water

Many people can die and the land is polluted from the trash and dirty water

Power outages 

No homes 

100s dead 

Technology: Tsunami Alarm System

My idea is that there will be a sewer type trench on the ocean coastline. Towards the piers, if they have any, and the trench will be very deep, and it then leads back into the middle of the ocean, but is about 5 feet from the ocean water so water can come out, but not in. 

It is cost affordable because there is no electronic devices in my idea. It’s basically contains the sewer material metal, a trench, that has to be dug, and a really long pipe. 

I’m not thinking of the world, but presenting it, I’m going to have a model. The model will consist of a large, deep bucket, filled wtih said, a glass of water, to create force, a sewer like build that runs across the bucket, and a really deep trench that has a large pipe so that the water can run out. 

^^^ Update: This was my pitch presentation outline. I did very well on my pitch and most of my peers said that I did well, but I don't get on how some people said "No" to the question of "Did the presenter share the idea of the final project" when I had a model of it, and said "This is an idea of my final project" and explained the process. What can I say? Some people can be mean.

These are pictures of my idea of my final project

Till next time my friends... :)

4th Blog Post 

What original technology could you come up with? Explain as thoroughly as possible.

The technology I chose that is original is to build a trench like sewer sealed with ropes or metal. The trench will be deep and long. The advantage of the trench of being long and deep is that tsunami waves or powerful. They can go miles. Although the trench won’t be miles long, it will make the wave less powerful by catching most or some of the water. It will be deep enough to catch a lot of water. The water would then go through a big filter that allows water to go through, but not in from the ocean. 

How could you improve some of the current technologies for your natural disaster (that you previously researched)? 

 Technology: Tsunami Alarm System

The way you can improve this is not just send it to your subscribers, you can send it to everyone like how amber alerts work. 

Is your technology idea feasible/possible? Why or why not? Be specific in your explanation.

My technolgy is possible because there are already sewers, but know you just have to enlarge them by like 10 times their size and make them way deeper. 

“Normally, the lay of the land will not completely cooperate, and gravity cannot do all the work. In these cases, the sewer system will include a grinder-pump or a lift station to move the wastewater up over a hill” (http://home.howstuffworks.com/home-improvement/plumbing/sewer3.htm)

Is your technology idea cost effective (is this affordable)? Why or why not? Be specific in your explanation.

 a sewer costs: “The average bill for each falls between $10 and $30 a month, although you may be billed at a flat rate for both that can cost between $20 and $60” (https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&ssui=on#safe=active&ssui=on&q=how+much+does+sewer+cost&*). 

So if a sewer costs that much, mine will probably cost a flat fee of $400. The reason why that is the price because the flat rate for both is between $20 and $60. The average of them both is $40. Since my technology will be about 10 times larger, you would multiply 40 by 10 to which gives you about $400 give or take. 

Work Cited 

http://go.grolier.com/

http://www.tsunami-alarm-system.com/en/tsunami-alarm-system/tsunami-alarm-system.html

http://home.howstuffworks.com/home-improvement/plumbing/sewer3.htm

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&ssui=on#safe=active&ssui=on&q=how+much+does+sewer+cost&* 

Third Blog Post

In your own words, explain your understanding of what mitigation means when referring to a natural disaster.

Mitigation means to make something less severe by technology in my own words. By the definition of google, it is the action of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something.

What mitigation technologies currently exist for your natural disaster?

People have raised their house. My idea could be made out of bedrock. But my main idea is listed in doc 1 of week one.

What are the pro’s and con’s of some of the mitigation technologies currently available? Why is it important to advance or totally replace the existing technologies?Some things require money and experts to lift houses. -con

It might just save your house from a tsunami. -pro

By lifting the house, you could damage it. -con

The tsunami might knock the poles out. -con

You should replace it would my idea because there no one could get hurt and the water will just fill in a deep trench.

Brainstorm 1-3 questions you would want to ask an expert about your disaster (something that you may need clarified).

How do you stabilize a rope?

How is a tsunami so strong that it can travel for miles?

Is a wall better than a trench?

Work Cited

https://www.google.com/searchq=mitigation&rlz=1CAHPZT_enUS732US733&oq=mitigation&aqs=chrome.0.0l6.1688j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&ssui=on

https://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/30627

Second Post

How does my natural disaster affect people?

A tsunami can hurt people or affect their homes. A tsunami can cause flooding and that could lead to drowning. Ultimately, death. Also, a tsunami can take a house out of its foundation This can lead to shelter homes and people with no houses or food for weeks, maybe months, and rarely years.

When the water hit land, thousands of people were killed and vast damage was caused to buildings, roads and farmland.

What are ALL of the costs of my natural disaster (human and economic)?

Economically, there are billions of dollars lost from tsunamis.  

When the water hit land, thousands of people were killed and vast damage was caused to buildings, roads and farmland. (On 26 December 2004, an undersea earthquake off the coast of Indonesia sent a wall of water surging across the Indian Ocean)

Kill people on impact

Nocked people on impact and then would lead to drowning

Knock apart homes

Flood buildings

Power lines destroyed

Work Cited

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disasters_by_cost

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/ng-interactive/2014/dec/25/human-financial-cost-indian-ocean-tsunami-interactive

https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-tsunamis

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/ng-interactive/2014/dec/25/human-financial-cost-indian-ocean-tsunami-interactive