Almost Presentation!

Ok, so today I touched up my poster and worked a bit on my reflection paper that is due soon. Not much left at this point. Just have to wait until thursday and then, PRESENTATION TIME!! (is upon us).

I learned a whole lot on this subject, but I still need to become a little more fluently knowledgeable about the classification system, founded by Annie Jump Cannon. It classifies based on star temperature, using the letters OBAFGK and M, O being the hottest, M the coolest.

It's Finished!

Huzzah! My poster is done!! That took a while. I can't believe it's almost time to be done and present. It seems like yesterday I was just starting! Oh, well. And now the year is ending as well and sooo many new projects are popping up. Thank goodness for the three day weekend.
And Happy Memorial Day!!

Also, thanks to the sun for finally coming out and shining on me and my project and stained glass. Also, thanks to all the sites that helped me understand this and the people who helped me a bit. (It's 99% done by me!)

Alas, presentation day is yet to come. Hope I'm prepared!

P.S. Thanks to everyone who actually looked at my blog. It's been fun and I learned a lot!

Last In-Class Work Day

Though most likely not my last post. Now I'm just working on the layout and construction of my poster board and it's rather astounding how much space there is to fill. I'll manage, though. As soon as I get the chance, I will try to post some picture of my work in progress. It's not very pretty right now, but hopefully that will change. I have a good, clear picture of what I want my poster, at least, to look like now and most of the things I will be putting on it. Since my project works with things in space and non-tangible concepts, it's hard to get a lot of visuals or models, but there are enough things to make a good presentation.

I think there might also be a bit of fun with my nod to the Portal games, since, after all, Aperture Laboratories is funding this research. \( 'O' )/

Aperture Laboratories: A Trusted Friend in Science

Finishing Up...

So today I started writing a verbal presentation I can give going over all the research I've done. Hopefully that will keep me from stumbling horribly and looking too nervous (because I assure you, I will).
Unfortunately, it is pretty hard to get my prism experiment to work. My light does not want to make a nice, concentrated beam and my (borrowed) prism is having trouble breaking the light. Hopefully I can get some results, otherwise I'll just talk about how it should work and try to find why mine is not.

(I still have a lot to do on my poster!)

Until next time.

More Work!

Today in class we did some more work. I worked on making diagrams of the experiment I did on finding the emission spectra of Hydrogen, Helium, Nitrogen, Neon and Oxygen. Thanks to the chemistry department at my school that was not very hard. The pictures are in another location, but I will hopefully be able to add some soon.

My poster board has yet to be filled, but I'm working on the elements of my poster and a verbal part of my presentation so I can sound (and be) well informed and answer any questions people may have. The presentation setting will be a sort of class symposium or science fair.