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Female Engineers

Debbie Sterling a female engineer talked about how she became an engineer. She also talked about how she went through many challenges before just succeeding as an engineer. In her engineer class in college, she was one of the only girls in her class. Debbie Sterling talks about the reason the United States only has 11% women engineers is because girls grow up playing with dolls and princesses. This is because of the culture we come from.

Being engineer means that you invent, create and build anything you can imagine. Though the majority of engineers are men Debbie Sterling still majored in engineering. She keeps repeating in the Ted Talk that she “doesn’t fit it”. Like I said before the majority of engineers are men and to fit she worked extra hard. Debbie Sterling then created a kids toy which incorporated reading and motor skills. In the toy, you create things while following along with the book. Debbie got shut down many times but she never gave up no matter what. Her toy is now selling a lot and helping kids especially girls with understanding engineering at a young age.

3D object Information

I chose the monument Stonehenge. Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire England. Stonehenge was completed slowly. It started 5,000 years ago, Stonehenge is a monument that is full of different size stones to form a circle. The monument added round stones in the center around the year 2500 BC. There are two types of stones used to create Stonehenge. The two consist of sarsen and bluestones. The larger stones are sarsen and the smaller are bluestones. There is a total of 83 stones in Stonehenge.

The monument has become part of the British culture because of its history and being in British literature and art. Though Stonehenge is proved to be part of the Neolithic people’s work. Stonehenge is important to its culture because it’s one of the only circular stone structures in the world, which makes it even more special. The monument is also very important because it is useful in coronations, druid temple and help astronomers figure out eclipses and solar events that happen. It’s a place of worship and healing. Stonehenge is important to me because I have always wanted to go see it. I am interested in old artifacts like old ruins or older monuments like Stonehenge. I chose this monument because of my interest and because of the uniqueness it has. I will be doing the North, South, West, East and the top.


Flatland Movie

Today in class we watched a movie on dimensions. In the movie I learned about 0, 1st, 2nd and 3rd dimension. A dimension is measurement extent such as width, length and height.  Zero dimension is just a point. In the movie it was named point land. There was just one point that connected to nothing. First dimension is a line. In the movie it was called line land. It was a line that could only move side to side. Second dimension is length and width. In the movie it was called flat land. 3rd dimensions was length, width and height which is like a three dimensional object. Dimensions are used in our daily lives as well. A tablet computer is 3 dimensional as well as your water bottle.

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