We're drinking power prune today ladies and gentlemen.
Well Whats that?
It's better water.
How could you make water better.
Add Vitamins that people don't get but they should.
The purpose of this project was to create a product that uses chemistry and water to better the worlds water in some place or way. We were given around three weeks to create the entire project. This included brainstorming, researching, creating a prototype, and making some sort of presentation to present to a group of elders with a heavy history in water purification, filtration and treatment.
Our first challenge as a group was getting the brain to jot down many illogical ideas that we would discuss later.
Then we choose our focus. Super water or a better type of water sounded really interesting to us so that what we stuck with rather than building a filter and started our research------>
Well Whats that?
It's better water.
How could you make water better.
Add Vitamins that people don't get but they should.
The purpose of this project was to create a product that uses chemistry and water to better the worlds water in some place or way. We were given around three weeks to create the entire project. This included brainstorming, researching, creating a prototype, and making some sort of presentation to present to a group of elders with a heavy history in water purification, filtration and treatment.
Our first challenge as a group was getting the brain to jot down many illogical ideas that we would discuss later.
- Alcohol
- Replacing pipes
- Pond treatment
- Better water
- Water filter
- Drinking water
- Water Crisis
- Fermentation
- Novato water map
- Drought
Then we choose our focus. Super water or a better type of water sounded really interesting to us so that what we stuck with rather than building a filter and started our research------>
Overview of our presentation-
We talked mostly about cleaning and infusing vitamins into water to make a anti malnutrition drink. When presented our project goes over how we would get sugar out of our drink, how we get the vitamins into the drink, and how vitamins are just atoms mashed together to make the dire things we need daily. 5 Prunes plus vitamin water minus the sugar equals a 1/2 of the daily vitamins you need and that was our goal. Have a healthy drink that gets you what you don't normally get out of common food. We know 3/4 humans don't receive the vitamins that are recommended for them through the data we recorded. Humans are machines and we need to keep each other running through the fuel we consume. Through our communicated presentation we hope our audience started thinking critically of what they put in their bodies to stay healthy.
We talked mostly about cleaning and infusing vitamins into water to make a anti malnutrition drink. When presented our project goes over how we would get sugar out of our drink, how we get the vitamins into the drink, and how vitamins are just atoms mashed together to make the dire things we need daily. 5 Prunes plus vitamin water minus the sugar equals a 1/2 of the daily vitamins you need and that was our goal. Have a healthy drink that gets you what you don't normally get out of common food. We know 3/4 humans don't receive the vitamins that are recommended for them through the data we recorded. Humans are machines and we need to keep each other running through the fuel we consume. Through our communicated presentation we hope our audience started thinking critically of what they put in their bodies to stay healthy.
More content that would be good to know-
Solution: a liquid mixture that is dissolved. The dirty water we used in our filter would be the solution.
Solute: a component in a solution that is dissolved in the solvent. The solutes in this project would be all the particles in the dirty water we were trying to get rid of.
Solvent: able to dissolve other substances. Water is known as a universal solvent, and this is what we used in our experiments and put through our filter.
Ionic vs Molecular: an ion is an atom or group of atoms that has a positive or negative charge (it has different number of electrons). An ionic bond is the transfer of electrons between a positive and negative (metal and nonmetal). Molecular bonds are between a metal and another metal that involves the sharing of electron pairs between atoms.
Polarity: A covalent bond in which electrons are not shared equally with a negatively charged and positively charged end. Water is extremely polar (oxygen and hydrogen)
Solubility: the ability of a substance to dissolve something
Wastewater: this is a term used to describe dirty or contaminated water that is not used for drinking or other things. This was part of our project, as this is what we essentially tested our filter with.
Solution: a liquid mixture that is dissolved. The dirty water we used in our filter would be the solution.
Solute: a component in a solution that is dissolved in the solvent. The solutes in this project would be all the particles in the dirty water we were trying to get rid of.
Solvent: able to dissolve other substances. Water is known as a universal solvent, and this is what we used in our experiments and put through our filter.
Ionic vs Molecular: an ion is an atom or group of atoms that has a positive or negative charge (it has different number of electrons). An ionic bond is the transfer of electrons between a positive and negative (metal and nonmetal). Molecular bonds are between a metal and another metal that involves the sharing of electron pairs between atoms.
Polarity: A covalent bond in which electrons are not shared equally with a negatively charged and positively charged end. Water is extremely polar (oxygen and hydrogen)
Solubility: the ability of a substance to dissolve something
Wastewater: this is a term used to describe dirty or contaminated water that is not used for drinking or other things. This was part of our project, as this is what we essentially tested our filter with.
Reflection-
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Reflection-This project definitely felt very similar to the spider aid project I did in Ms Mathews class last year while in STEM. I realized ours stood out a lot more this year because of the high attention to water treatment. Power Prune fails to go into the chemistry very well but more so in the general idea that humans aren't getting certain vitamins and we want an easy way for people to get all the vitamins they need in a simplistic way. We start with what vitamins are missing in most of our diets. A variety of the B vitamins the K vitamin, and some A as well as D (drink OJ). Using Prunes and an already mass produced vitamin water we combined them and then attempted to find a way to remove the sugar. Fermentation is a chemical process where alcohol added to the solution bonds with the sugar then evaporates overtime to remove the sugar.
The creation of the recipe was a very important part of this project since when we started out we weren't so sure if this was actually something that we could make ourselves in the chemistry lab. However, we made a recipe that could potentially have been prototyped if we had started sooner. The fermentation process takes two weeks and had we decided on our project prior we could’ve made an edible prototype. The recipe stands out because we actually composed it to contain all the vitamins most of us missed out on. This was a big peak with the recipe being the base for our project.
I extended on my critical thinking skills and my communication skills because the entire team was researching and finding information.While researching we had a group doc that we loaded with info we found and the charts we made of our day diets.
We were quite creative and inspired more to find something with our project. We took effort while deciding what slides were necessary and which weren’t. We used our big brains to do something no group had ever done before. We made better water. This is obviously a peak it showed the teacher we were inspired and didn’t want to give up when stuff got tough. For testing we couldn’t really do a lot since the water we intended on having throughout our product would already have been treated. For tests we looked at which ways were efficient in extracting prune juice and how much juice we got out of a group of prunes for how much water we hydrated it with.
As mild tests went on I figured one of my pits in this moment would be not making a standard for recording our data. While my group was hard at work extracting I figured I should at least do something. I decided to just compare the amount of juice in the vile after the water process was done. I didn’t record these numbers because I wasn’t feeling it that day or something along the lines of my Spanish program was falling apart. In the future I would’ve taken down the numbers and shared the importance of them with my group.
My work attitude should’ve been much higher and to the standards of the team around me. I should’ve done more for my group and worked harder with the parts assigned to me.
At the end of the day I think I enjoyed the project, although sometimes it was stressful because in the end we struggled with making a physical model. it was really vague for a while on how we were actually completing the project. The concept was really cool, even though I already did this project essentially with the spider aid thing I did last year. Very fun, very cool, very epic, very awesome. Howard the Alien.
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Reflection-This project definitely felt very similar to the spider aid project I did in Ms Mathews class last year while in STEM. I realized ours stood out a lot more this year because of the high attention to water treatment. Power Prune fails to go into the chemistry very well but more so in the general idea that humans aren't getting certain vitamins and we want an easy way for people to get all the vitamins they need in a simplistic way. We start with what vitamins are missing in most of our diets. A variety of the B vitamins the K vitamin, and some A as well as D (drink OJ). Using Prunes and an already mass produced vitamin water we combined them and then attempted to find a way to remove the sugar. Fermentation is a chemical process where alcohol added to the solution bonds with the sugar then evaporates overtime to remove the sugar.
The creation of the recipe was a very important part of this project since when we started out we weren't so sure if this was actually something that we could make ourselves in the chemistry lab. However, we made a recipe that could potentially have been prototyped if we had started sooner. The fermentation process takes two weeks and had we decided on our project prior we could’ve made an edible prototype. The recipe stands out because we actually composed it to contain all the vitamins most of us missed out on. This was a big peak with the recipe being the base for our project.
I extended on my critical thinking skills and my communication skills because the entire team was researching and finding information.While researching we had a group doc that we loaded with info we found and the charts we made of our day diets.
We were quite creative and inspired more to find something with our project. We took effort while deciding what slides were necessary and which weren’t. We used our big brains to do something no group had ever done before. We made better water. This is obviously a peak it showed the teacher we were inspired and didn’t want to give up when stuff got tough. For testing we couldn’t really do a lot since the water we intended on having throughout our product would already have been treated. For tests we looked at which ways were efficient in extracting prune juice and how much juice we got out of a group of prunes for how much water we hydrated it with.
As mild tests went on I figured one of my pits in this moment would be not making a standard for recording our data. While my group was hard at work extracting I figured I should at least do something. I decided to just compare the amount of juice in the vile after the water process was done. I didn’t record these numbers because I wasn’t feeling it that day or something along the lines of my Spanish program was falling apart. In the future I would’ve taken down the numbers and shared the importance of them with my group.
My work attitude should’ve been much higher and to the standards of the team around me. I should’ve done more for my group and worked harder with the parts assigned to me.
At the end of the day I think I enjoyed the project, although sometimes it was stressful because in the end we struggled with making a physical model. it was really vague for a while on how we were actually completing the project. The concept was really cool, even though I already did this project essentially with the spider aid thing I did last year. Very fun, very cool, very epic, very awesome. Howard the Alien.