Reflect on at least three takeaways that you learned from creating your project.

1. I realized that we can't get the product that we expected from the very beginning, but it's more of trial and error that gets our project closer to "perfection". 

2. I also learned that feedback was a crucial part of our project. With John and teachers' feedback, we were able to more realistically emulate a radar and the systems. 

3. I also learned good communication with my partner. Our work efficiency improved a lot when we agreed on tasks and distributed them well compared to if we didn't. 

4. It was also important to keep safe while using equipment in the I-lab, for example I was burned by hot glue. 

Explain what was difficult for you during this process and why.

It was a bit difficult trying to finish the final product, at first we were desperately trying to find enough time to finish it, because some other groups were already halfway through their final projects. Adding on to that, as a day boy, I wasn't able to help out my partner during afternoon study hall/guided work times. Though in the end, we were able to finish building it before the deadline. 

Talk about feedback that you received and how you were able to incorporate that into your process.  

John told us that there is a sender and receiver to a radar. At the time of the mid review visit, we only thought of creating a sender. After hearing his feedback, we decided to add a receiver, which not only made the model more complex, but also represented more like a radar and the 2 systems. We were also given feedback on how our model represents John's story, not just anyone's. So we ended up making the model more visually pleasing and also created a radar screen on the receiver end, which is an iconic feature of radars. 

1. I have learned that teamwork during the project is important. My partner and I had gone through struggles where our ideas did not match. This had wasted time and was hard to concur on one idea. Also working together as a team was an important factor for our project's progress. 

2. I have learned how to lasercut and save our progress through Rhino. Maybe, now I could lasercut on my own.?

3. I have also learned that time management is important. We have mostly been working with out recognizing how much time left. Therefore, there were moments where we had to cram our works in one day. 

A difficulty we faced was that my partner was a day student, thus although we had the evening study hall periods given to work at CCI, we could not take the full advantage. We called each other through phones but it was not as efficient as working together in a same space. 

After meeting with John, John gave us ideas and told more to us in details about radars. Thus we were able to come up with parts like senders and receivers like the ones in a radar. Without this mid term check in with John, we could not have came up with the idea like the base ramps for failing cut outs. With NuVu&Fessenden faculties' critic and John's I believe we were able to incorporate them well and further enhance our project.

John was born in the 1930's. The first major event of his life is WWII. He was very young when WWII broke out, and he was able to avoid the draft. Our system model tries to recreate the process of how John fixed a radar during the war period. He was an amateur aeronautical engineer before being recruited by the navy. After he joined, he became an electrical engineer and started learning about radars. Radars, according to John, were top-secret technology that no other country had. John learned about radars for 10 months before the war ended, meaning he was involved in the war during the last year: 1944-1945. 

In 1943, Mussolini surrendered after his government fell in Sicily and Italy

June, 6, 1944, celebrated as D-day, where enormous Allied forces invaded Europe from the beach of Normandy. This resulted in Hitler sending his remaining forces to fend off the invasion. 

February, 1945, an intense aerial bombardment was followed by a land invasion of Germany. 

May, 8, 1945, Germany formally surrendered

September, 2, 1945, Japan formally surrendered on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay 

Source : https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/world-war-ii-history

Our storytelling object is a marble run. A marble will be placed and inserted into the hole of these boxes and would follow the path in the boxes. However, in these boxes there are multiple layers. These are slidable and would form many stories. The path would be impeded if the user slid the box in the wrong place. 

This marble run symbolize John BLANK's work on radars during WWII. At the time, John served in the navy. He was tasked with developing top secret technology know as the radar. This was a significant moment in his life because this was when he switched from majoring Aeronautical Engineering to Electrical Engineering. In a radar, there are senders and receivers. Senders emit high frequency waves, while receivers collect the waves that were bounced off of detected object. 

To represent these senders and receivers in this marble run, we made a ball that represents high frequency waves, which travels along the ramps. If the ball passed through all three sections, there will be a container that collects the ball at the end of the ramp, representing a receiver. If the ball does not go through all the sections, it will exit through the sides and not appear in the receiver. 

Green lines waving through the gleaming screen turns on the light in my head. Enlightened. I quickly scribble my inner light down. Sudden flash with temporary sparks soon loses its vitality. Void black emerges. I've failed. Numerous disappointments yet this still puts a smile on my face. Ardently, I started from the beginning. The sender.