The day with faculty was incredibly helpful. They gave us a different perspective. A perspective from those who really drive and who would benefit from the app. We learned that we need to add details that make driving more enjoyable. They gave us the idea of adding close coffee shops and restaurants that they like. The app would notify them if they are close by. They also gave us the idea of adding credits to the app and let them know how much pollution they saved by using app. After getting great feedback from the faculty our group talked together and we are mainly focusing on the small details that overall make a big difference. We have reached out with multiple organizations such as “The Two Swedish Brothers”. They informed us that electric cars are a huge part of increasing the healthy air. They don’t bring nearly any pollution to the air. By using our app you will save huge amounts of gas without buying a new car. When getting out of airport for instance you won’t smell cars and gas as soon as you get home. You smell fresh air. You will be able to travel efficiently while feeling good that you helped the environment. This app needs to be on your phone because if the environment fails air will be so bad and unhealthy. Our app will have a huge impact on the environment simply making everything healthier and easier to live a healthy life. To collect our data and find out how much pollution is saved we are going to calculate the average amount of gas that a car uses per mile. And a day later with the same activities before, we are going to calculate how many miles you save with the app.
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This week our team made great progress. We narrowed our idea. And came up with a few possible solutions. Our ideas : how many times does your family or you yourself drive somewhere then back to home then somewhere then back to home again. This is a huge waste of gas. But we have the solution. An app, this app can take your schedule and plot you a path. In the most efficient way it can plot the best path. But what we got from all these ideas is not a solution. We got an awesome problem, unessential waste of gas. And that problem is where we are going right now.
Our team consists of 3 people Ben Leshgold, Dylan Eskovitz, and Caroline O’Connor. We are students at Windward school and we are in Kevin Kloeker’s Science 7 class. We are working on a CBL, Challenged based learning, project which focuses on fixing a problem in the world. Our ideas for problems that we are facing our things having to do with pollution created from transportation and fossil fuels. These are all bad for the environment and we are trying to narrow it down. These problems are very big so we can’t fix them in the time that we have. We want to narrow it down enough so that we can help people's lives everyday. Our main goal for this project is to think of an idea, execute it, build it, and make it useful. written by Ben Leshgold, Title by Caroline O’Connor |