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