Egyptian Religion Pillar

Project Description: My Freshman Humanities class decided to change the history of our race and send a helpful object or tool trough time to help an extinct civilization survive. We would choose either a trebuchet, a modern day sailboat, or a water (purification) system. We would then have to get our object or tool approved and funded by the High Tech High Science Society.

Process: For my group's trebuchet for the Ancient Egyptian civilization, we had to make a couple of posters and, in time, a trebuchet. First, you had to create a blueprint to prove that your design could be applied to the actual object. Once you had that accomplished, you would get the blueprint approved by either one of our teachers. You would make changes if necessary and create the final draft. Next, you would create a concept poster that would explain how the object worked. In my group's case, we explained the laws of projectile motion. We would get that approved just like we did with the blueprints and make the corrections if needed. Next, we would create the actual object or tool based on your blueprint. Finally, you would paint a portrait that would represent your pillar. For example, mine was Ancient Egypt so I painted an Egyptian goddess named Isis over the Pyramids to represent Religion. Of course the others on my team painted representatives of Government, Science & Technology, and Architecture. Then the exhibition would come and you would show off your finished product.

Reflection: What did you learn? Well, during this whole ordeal, I learned alot about gravity and projectile motion and how it affected the real world. Plus I learned what the normal gravitiational pull is (negative 9.8 m/s). What challenges did you encounter? While building this particular trebuchet I had some challenges with my partners. I have to admit it. I argued with them about what we should do for building and creating the posters and I think that I did that too much and I'm sorry I did that. I think that I was really stressed about this project as well and I think I let my nerves get to me too much. What would you do the same or different? If I ever did this project again, I would definitely not let my emotions get in the way of my work (ex. my stress and frustration). That is not an excuse to not work well with others. I take full responsibility for my actions. Next time I would focus on the positive things that were happening like how our trebuchet turned out (gorgeous by the way!). How will this help you later? Well this project has helped me learn about the pros and the cons about working in a group and I think that this would help me in real life because not everyone I work with is going to be perfect and agree with everthing I say. I think that this would help me with making the project to my fullest ability and be able to make it amazing!

Artifact (a.k.a. Picture): Below is a picture of my pillar that I painted for the Ancient Egyptian Religion. As I said in the Process section of this blog post, it has an Egyptian goddess named Isis above the Pyramids of Giza.