Week 15: Goals

Goals:

This week beside collecting bottles for the boat some other goals I have for this week are to help out other seniors with their senior projects. Help Shaina come up with a project for arduino which will include creating a spreadsheet of costs and item amounts. Also I will be continuing to help Shaina with baking cookies for our on going fundraiser.

Week 14: Update

Update:

Closing this week included  Ayla giving us more bottles to collect, starting a mini bottle design for a basis and  finishing up an ardunio power point. 

Week 14: Goals

Goals:

This week Taylor and I plan on getting bottles, start a mini model of our boat and aside from working on the project I am currently helping Shaina and Michael with Arduino and powerpoints.  

Week 13: Update

Update:

This week Taylor and I collected more bottles, started to gather materials (such as sealants for our boat).

Week 13: Goals

Goals:

This week Taylor and I plan on collecting bottles and make sure our proposal is coming along

Goal for the end ^ Fully functioning bottled boat.

Week 12: Update

Update:

This week we've accomplished collecting more bottles and fixed a couple of errors in our proposal.  

Week 12: Goals

Goals:

Taylor and I do not have much planned for this week other than the editing our proposal and keep collecting bottles for out boat. 

A few bottled we've collected. 

Week 11: Update

Update:

This week Taylor and I did minimal revising on our proposal, we've collected bottles to add to our ever expanding collection and we've pin pointed a couple of locations that might help up collect bottles for our boat. 

Week 11: Goals

Goals:

This week Taylor and I plan on to revising our proposal, keep collecting bottles, and looking for other places to help out with donating plastic bottles. Some places we are interested looking in for help are restaurants and possibly recycling plants.  

 

Half of what we've collected so far. 

Week 10: Update

Update:

This week we've accomplished writing a very rough draft of our proposal and collected more bottles. 

All generously donated by Ayla Kovner and a few others. 

Week 10: Goals

Goals:

This week Taylor and I are going to write our first rough draft of our proposal and keep collecting bottles for the boat. 

^ Our rubric to follow for a proper / right proposal ^

Week 9: Update

Update:

This week I've rewrote some of my past blogs to make them a bit more formal and fixed the weeks and we also collected more soda bottles. We've found great resources to help make our proposal solid. 

Week 9: Goals

Goals:

- This week goals include collecting bottles, keep updating the blog, and get references links for my project.

Week 8: Update

Update:

This week Taylor and I collected more plastic bottles to add to our collection. We also researched more possible reliable sources for the reasons why people litter, what most plastic bottles are made from, how they are recycled, and lastly what percent of plastic bottles are actually recycled and how many end up in water systems. Currently I am in the process of fixing all of our other posts to make them right.  

  

 

 * The fish tank is a temporarily storage area until more bottles are collected. 

 * Most of the bottles were gratefully donated by Ayla Kovner.   

Week 8: Goals

Goals:

This week we plan on to keep collecting bottles for our boat and research information for proposal / paper. We also plan on updating previous blog posts to be not just bullet points and more detailed information. 

Week 7: Update

Goals:

Taylor and I do not have much planned for this week other than the editing our proposal and keep collecting bottles for out boat. 

A few bottled we've collected. 

Week 7: Goals

Goals

This week Taylor and I plan on to keep collecting bottles, get a final answer on our possible mentorship and work on our letter of intent.  

Week 6: Update

Update:

- This week Taylor and I worked on blog, collected more plastic bottles and found a potential mentor who is currently in limbo about weather to say yes or no to the offer.

Week 6: Goals

Goals:

- Find a mentor 

- Keep collecting bottles 

Week 5: Update + Timeline

Update:

- Planned out Senior Project (Week by Week)

- Got More Bottles from Friends 

Week 5: Goals

Goals:

- Make a timeline of project

- Keep collecting bottles

- Make a draft design of boat

Week 4: Update + Budget

Update:

- Found a potential sealant for bonding the plastic bottles together

- Found out where money is going to come from

- Emailed a couple companies that sell glue products and caulking (looking for the best sealant) 
-Started collection of bottles

Week 4: Goals

Goals: 

-Finalize a formal budget including where to get money, how to get it 

-Find a mentor 

-Starting planning on a timeline of the project with major landmarks that need to get done

Week 3: Update, Proposal & Budget

Update:

- Still currently searching for the best binding agent / material to put the bottles together 

- Updated materials with budget 

- Wrote proposal 

Proposal:

Everyday people waste multitudes of plastic bottles worldwide. The plastic bottle lifespan depending on its size only lasts to about ten minutes to up to a couple days, which is not long. After the “death” one of three things happen to the bottles: 1) they are littered in the environment 2) they are just thrown away in regular garbage collection or 3) they are recycled. With recycling moving forward every year there are still millions of plastic bottles that are just being wasted. Which is why my partner and I propose the idea of building of a boat out of plastic bottles as it could easily recycle about four hundred to eight hundred bottles, depending on the design and structure of the boat. 

Budget + Materials:

• (?) Recycled Plastic Coca-Cola Bottles of various sizes (2 liter, 1.5 liter, etc.)* . . . . . Free
• (8) 1/4 in. x 1-1/2 in. x 8 ft. Pressure-Treated Southern Yellow Shortleaf Pine Lath . $7.76
• Nails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2.37
• Binding Material ** . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  $ . . .

Total: $10.13

* They are going to be collected from various sources

** We are currently still looking to find the best binding agent / material in order to attach the plastic bottles together, this will be added later with a completed price.

  

Week 3: Goals

Weekly Goals:

- Get together with Taylor and research needed materials 

- Make an estimated budget of all materials 

-  Make a proposal for senior research project 

Week 2: Update

Update:

 ~ Taylor and I have compiled a list of materials that might or will be needed for our project:

 -Two litre and other various sized Coke-Cola plastic bottles* 
-Recycle Metal Strips
-Tolling motor
-Solar Panels

~ Recently We've were able to collected three two litre bottles.
~ I was able to get Taylor on the blog (although she has yet to write a bio about herself)
~ We have gotten a few research links to use in the paper
~ We also have gotten a couple design ideas how to make the boat


*Estimate on number of bottles to be soon once we get a design for the boat somewhat finalize. 

Week 2: Just made a Blogger

Goals for the Week:

-Understand blogger.

-Get Taylor on the blog.

-Research senior project.

-Get together necessary resources for project (or make a list of them).