We're Back Again

We are very sorry about the shortage of post recently. This is the 2015-2016 Ecology class at Hixson High School. We will carry on the work of last years group. This class has great news to tell you and that is that we won the Junior Mini League Grant. Now we will be able to fully start and get up and running!  

Last post

Hey guys this will be my last blog post. It was nice keeping y'all up to date. Have a great summer!!!!!

Dried up part of the creek

Sorry for the wait

Welcome back environmental scientists!! Sorry for the wait but our class has been out of commission for the past two weeks but now we are back. We will be going down to the creek on Wednesday to check up on the creek and all of the conditions of our ecosystems. I will check back in on Wednesday to give y'all the information and I will supply photos too, have a great day and stick around!!!

We're back!!!!!!

Welcome back y'all. Today we are dropping our bouy back in the creek with some tweaks to it so hopefully it won't leak this time around. Wish us luck, and we will update if it worked tomorrow!!😆the bridge we walk across is under water

The Results...

The moment that we have all been waiting for, the second test to see if the buoy was able to withstand a whole 24 hours in the creek without any leaks or water getting it it. The results that came out of this buoy test are amazing! We extracted the buoy from the creek without any problems and when we opened it to check if there was any water that might have gotten inside, there was none. Being the first group to create a buoy without it leaking means that our first part of the project is complete and we will be able to take it a step further! I am so proud of the hard work that my fellow environmental scientists have put forth and now we have done it, get ready to do it again with a transmitter inside of the buoy this time!!!

 

Spring break!!

Woohoo the week that we have all been waiting for! To our students that have been helping with the project thank you, now we know what to fix on the buoy when we get back to school. When we return to school we will be working hard to try to create a buoy that doesn't leak and we will continue to send messages through the antennas. Have a fun spring break and see y'all when we get back!!!!!!😄

Visit with Mozilla

Today we are having an after school meeting with Geoff, who is a Mozilla representative. We are going over the time-line for this semester and we have to have a meeting between the new and old students. The discussions between the groups of students are about how we will be moving forward in the project, we will be continuing the water monitoring system and we will also be adding a new addition to the monitoring system, we will be testing the oxygen levels in the creek behind our high school. So this semester students are taking this project a step further and adding new additions to our water buoy and testing new levels in the creek. Tomorrow we will be testing the buoy for the first time to see if it will need any repairs or to make changes if needed. Thanks for checking us out, stay tuned in for more news!!!

Learning about the water buoy

Working with college students

What are we doing today?

Today we are continuing our work for the project, although we cannot fully work on it. we have groups of kids working on different things, like one group is working on what water shed we live in. Then we have a group working on an XBEE; which is a module used for radio communication transceiver and receiver. Another group is working hard to build buoy so we can measure the iron levels, the oxygen levels, and the temperature of the creek behind our school. Then we have a group working on instructional videos for the future students! Needless to say, we are all trying to work hard towards our goal of reaching the project destination!! GOOD LUCK ENVIRONMENTALISTS!!!!

Don't forget

Hey there environmental scientists,  don't forget that you're chapter1 packet, and the Tragedy of the Commons are due when we get back to school. Have fun finishing your work♥

Sorry for the Delay

 February 24
     We have been out of school for about a week now, and the weather had been cold and snowy/icy here. Being in the south, we don't really get powder snow, instead we get slushy ice and wet snow because of all of the humidity in the air here. Remember students in Mrs. Pattersons 6th block class that your "Tragedy of the Commons" packet and worksheet is due tomorrow, February,25.

Welcome back!

This is the newest group to take over the wireless watchdogs and we are excited to share and document our progress with you. Unfortunately we are not able to work for the project as of now, but we will still be posting our awesome adventures that we do in here!
                   We are currently working on our arduino circuits and i will post a video of my groups circuit set in the next few hours. Thank you for being patient and waiting for us to start back up.