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MELENDEZ VALDES SPACE PROYECT (MVSP) WORKSHOP: Finding the most appropriate material to design a spacecraft.

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Imagine that you are a group of several engineers and you have a great challenge. Our challeger is to desing a space ship that we will be sent into space. In order to do so we must find the most appropiate materials. Students have to use a variety of strategies to be able to experimentally investigate several different materials so as to find the most appropiate one. Those and, if we want to send a ship into space we have to choose materials must withstand extreme conditions such as:      - Materials that conduct the heat to avoid damage when the temperature increases or decreases.      - Theres materials must be concuctors of electriciyto to withstand any spark and not damage electronic circuits.      - These materials must be also impact resistant as they can colllide with space debris or meteorites.      - Materials cannot be magnetic so taht their own circuitos to no interact with radiation.      - In additio...

LEONARDO DA VINCI STRUCTURES

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Structure is a set of different items with the objective to suport loads The structures keep the shape unde the force of gravity, the wind or any other force. A example of structure is a human skeleton, bycycles... Types of forces These loads can stretch, shorten, or bend. Then we say that these items works traction (tight), compresion (pilar) or flexion (beam). A way to khown this in a structure is making an imáginary cut . There two more forces: shear and torsion.             -    Shear is force that try to cut the objets.               -  Torsion is a force that try to turn the element. Types of structures:           - Frame structures. It is the most commoon of structure. It have a lot of elements joind to each other. It is empty. Example is a bycicle or a house              - Shell structures. This structure have a thin out...

Chemistry workshop: We create our lemonades, bread, perfumes and creams.

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 A lemonade is a mixture of solid elements (sugar), liquids (lemon and water) and gases (bicarbonate); we produce chemical reactions, changes of state (ice to water), solutions (sparkling lemonade), infusions, distillations… to produce soft drinks, soaps, perfumes, creams, insect repellants, in short chemical compounds…. Goals to achieve: - To know chemistry process like dissolutions, reactions, mixtures, separations of substances Contents to be developed: - Dissolutions, chemistry reactions, mixtures, mix solids… Methodology:   Is a lemonade a dissolution?  It's a mix?  It's hot and what better way to fight it with a lemonade. For this we are going to "dissolve" lemon juice in water, or orange ... If we also put some ice cubes, it will go from solid to liquid, producing a "change of state" and cooling said solution. We can also "dissolve" a little solid sugar and it will be sweeter and richer .. Making perfumes.  Perfume is also...

TALLER DE MOSAICOS

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Tras estudiar la tecnología a lo largo de la historia, nos ha resultado llamativo la expresión del mundo romano en sus mosaicos. Se puede aprender en estos de sus tipos de vestidos, sus tradiciones, sus técnicas, materiales o herramientas. Estos demostraban una gran sensibilidad artística y técnica dominando aspectos como la geometría, el movimiento, la utilización de símbolos, el color, o las escalas. De todo ello podemos aprender, pero además podemos "sumar" otros aspectos actuales con la realización de mosaicos utilizando no solo las técnicas antiguas, sino usando materiales y herramientas nuevas. Fomentamos así  la iniciativa personal, la utilización de búsquedas con programas informáticos (paint), el uso de tratamientos de fotografías, la autocrítica, la actualización en la combinación de colores, el autocontrol, la expresión de resultados y la  adaptación de técnicas tradicionales a la actualidad. Aquí quedamos algunos ejemplos de ellos realizados por nuestro alumnado d...

TALLER QUÍMICA TÉCNICA I (disoluciones y mezclas): GEL HIDROALCOHÓLICO, PERFUMES, JABONES,CREMAS...

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   Cuando hablamos de las propiedades de los materiales, siempre tendemos a identificarlas con las propiedades físicas y químicas desde un entorno industrial, tales como ductibilidad, maleabilidad, conductor eléctrico, aislante, resistencia, corrosión, oxidación...       Pero también podemos conocer y explotar sus propiedades sensoriales (color, olor, tacto...) para estudiar otros conceptos químicos como es "disoluciónes y meclas" para fabricar perfumes, geles hidro alcohólicos, jabones, cremas hidratantes, y a su vez, conocer las medidas de seguridad que debemos respetar en todo momento en los talleres e industrias. Con este taller, queremos identificar olores y como fabricar gel hidroalcólico (según las directrices de la OMS), diferentes tipos de perfumes, cremas..., y así aprender que es una disolución,  el concepto de soluto, disolvente, cálculos porcentuales, volúmenes, masas y uso de instrumentos como pipetas, matraces, jeringuillas... 

VIDEOGAME WORKSHOP

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In this topic we are going to make a videogame with scratch. In this workshop you only have to learn four questions:   1.- Design and move objects.  First you have to select the object and you can edit the object or import it from the different objects you have in the same program. to make the program you only have to translate with the icons: when I press the right key, x changes 10 steps. When I pick the left key it changes -10 steps.  2.- Design and move scenarios.  Paint some stages and program. when you press the green flag, repeat always and change the stage. wait a second.   3.- Interact several objects.  If you want an object to disappear. The best is to use the following instruction: “when the green color touches the red colour, it will disappear for a second”. Or you use: “ if you touch objetc1, disappear.   You can make that object move randomly from -200 to 200 at each coordinate.   4.- Make it pretty.

3D printing workshop: building a ring key.

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With this workshop we will learn to make our applications. Goals to achive:      To know to desig a piece.      To learn to use a 3D printer. Contents to developed:      Views, 3D printing, scales… Methodology:      In this workshop, we are going to learn to design pieces with the program Tikercad. It is on line and free and easy to use..     First,  You must log in. Then, We must click on “create design”. We can choose a cube and we give it the dimensions we want 20 by 15 by 4 millimeters and we round the corners. We select a text and we give it the dimensions: 15 by 10 by 4 with the text ESEX21. We select each object as solido r hollow and overlap them. The letters would be hollow as in the figure. Now we select a cylinder with the dimensions of 2 by 2 by 3 and we select it hollow ang group. We will have the design. We export the file and take it ot the 3D printer for manufacturing. This would be the keychain ...