POT Class Wraps Up Their Final Project

By Joshua Eschbach

                After a long semester of learning and building, Olympia High School’s Principles of Technology class have started their final project of the year.

                Throughout the school year, the class has done multiple projects. The first project of the year was to make a car from a rat trap, and then the class made boats from cardboard, and then assembled model windmills to generate power.

                For the ending project, the students had to create something using the engineering design process. The student’s projects have to solve an issue that they deal with every day.

                For the project, the students have to record the criteria and constraints for the project, construct a prototype, and after engineering the final project, create a PowerPoint describing how they constructed their product.

                Seniors  Joshua Melick and Andy Moss are building a motor that will charge your phone while riding a bicycle. Joshua said, “Our project takes quite a bit of work, we have a motor that spins against the rim when the rim is spinning which then send power to a system that charges the phone.”

                During this semester, the POT classes have spent a lot of time out in the school green house cleaning and fixing irrigation and hydroponic systems.          Seniors Alex Ewalt and Christ Geurts are building a vertical hydroponic system made from downspout gutters. Alex stated, “There are only a few hydroponic systems in the green house that are in operating order, so we are in need of a new system.”