Today Mr. Thomas and 7 members from the space project met at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum for the National Design Challenge. We were met by Alli Westover from CASIS, who presented information about the engineering design process. We looked at a design process flowchart and talked about what makes a good design for an experiment. We discussed engineering notebooks and the importance of signatures, as the notebook is a legal document. We also looked at design matrices and talked about brainstorming, subsystems, and incremental testing. Then, April Spinale from CASIS presented about what was needed in the Hazards document. Afterwards, we broke into groups, where we brainstormed about how to mix nutrients with bacteria, how to detect the cloudiness of water in vials, and materials besides PLA. Also, if we would have more trials in just Earth's gravity, or less trials in both Earth's and Mars' gravity.
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