Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Day 8: Star party is today!



Days since last accident: f̶i̶v̶e̶  zero
It's been a beautiful day! In the afternoon, the temperature dropped from the drizzle we had, and our progress has come along nicely. Our pump is working, and we re-assembled the pressure sensor testing system with the sliding ruler.

We have just finished recording more readings from zero depth to 30 cm depth in water. Andrew has more coding to do tomorrow, but for now he is comfortable with what has been completed so far. Unfortunately, we got unexpected issues with the SD card, but hopefully it can be fixed soon.

Ethan was having a field day cutting metal rods, and making a new sheet metal divider for our second tank. We had a field trip to the Galvin basement to use the workshop, where all the cool pieces of machinery are. As of now, Ethan is still going back and forth to Galvin Hall to cut another 1 square inch piece of sheet metal for tomorrow's experiment.

You guessed it folk, today's accident was experienced by Sheiny! This gives her 2 points, and Andrew 1 point, while Ethan and Dr. Stonedahl are still at zero points. Anyway, Shieny will do the experiments with the sand to hopefully figure out wich of the variables are responsible for making inconsistencies in our electrolytic conductivity readings.

Ethan assembling the new divider
Ethan the metal bender!
He uses the tool like he was born with it. 
Filing away
Another filing session
No hose no problem!

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