This year a fellow pilot student, Mayla and I took on the task of re-designing the waste system in our school cafeteria. By waste system we mean the set up and order of the trash, recycling, compost, trays bus bins and share basket. When we started it was just the bin lined up around the central poles in our cafeteria. this processes has evolved many different designs and sketches of trash recycling and compost bins in many different orders and set ups.
This will lead you to a goggle doc with all of our design, pros and cons for each one, more about the process of designing it, and the standards we met for it.
In the second semester we started building it. The goal all along was to build it, we just weren't sure how. We started working with Dave Basis (the woods shop teacher) and a few other green team members. We are hoping that it will be done by next year so that it can be used. here are some pictures of it looks like right now:
Carbon cycle
The carbon cycle is something that I started to research with Charlie Wanzer who was my mentor at the beginning of the semester. I wanted to learn more about the whole system, which I did. I have since stopped working with Charlie, but continued a little bit of the carbon study on my own. All of this resulted in a carbon cycle Prezi that I made. I did a lot of research for it, specifically on the whole system.
At the time I wrote this a lot of different part so my project were connected to compost, and I wanted show what I had learned about it. So, I wrote and essay about it, which can be found in the writing section of my portfolio. or with this link:
Beginning of quarter 2 I was talking a lot about Biodigesters for my waste system project, and I realized I didn't actually really know what they were. So I did a bunch of research about them, which resulted in a diagram and notes. I originally thought that I was going to do more with them, but after I took those notes I didn't really want to do more, so I moved on to other stuff. I still might come back to it but this is what I did so far.