Category: Innovate

Bills: The Long Path To Law

To demonstrate the long and winding road that bills must travel to become a law, I parodied a monopoly game board. Bills start as ideas that eventually gain enough support to be discussed on the floor of both the Senate and the House. Depending on if the two houses vote ay or nay, the bill […]

Which Is Better To Learn From In Education – Fact or Fiction?

       In education, it is more beneficial to learn from nonfiction texts rather than fictional writing. Nonfiction text includes material that is crucial for learning and conveys important central ideas. For instance, “Mattel defined gender norms with Barbie and Ken; now it defies them” is an article written by Kim Bellware that discusses […]

Ankle Foot Orthosis Design Challenge

In my PLTW (Project Lead the Way) Design and Modeling class, my group and I were given challange to design, build and test a prototype of an Ankle Foot Orthisis for a patient with Cerebral Palsy. We created an innovative AFO to restrict downward movement of the ankle by our patient and solve thier walking […]

Saving City X with 3D Printer Powers

Humans have just landed on an alien planet, and they’ve found an area for their first city, City X. The only resource they brought with them was a 3D printer. They were starting to encounter some problems that they needed our help to solve. We were given a challenge to create new inventions with the […]

Creating a Coastal Barrier to Save Fudai

Fudai is a small fishing village on the coast of Japan. In March of 2011, a tsunami hit the coast of Japan. It destroyed all of the villages, except Fudai. The secret of Fudai’s survival was their seawall. Unlike the other villages 10-meter seawalls, Fudai built a seawall that was 15-meters tall. Mayer Kotoko Wamura […]