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P3T6 Science Fair from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

My story was about my sister was the only science fair contestant from her school. Her science fair project was about testing streams around Kauai for a pesticide called Atrazine used on plantations on Kauai. She first got the idea of this project when she heard Atrazine was found in school water on the west side of the island. Her story was also about the hard work she had to go through to achieve her goals. The contributors to this project were Lester Garcia Steven Villanueva, Ritikaa Kumar, and Ritikaa's science fair teacher Nicole McKamey.

The final grade of our project was a B. The rough cut grade for me was an A. It looked like I dropped by one grade, this was actually a disappointment for me since I think I deserved at least a low A for what I did. It wasn't a huge disappointment because I still was proud of my grade it wasn't too bad. I think next time I should include all the things he said I had to fix because this time he said I was missing some things.

My critique results were reasonable at the most part. Someone put that are team deserved a one but I honestly don't think that we deserved that because we either got a 3 or 4 but not a 1 or 2. We got mostly 3's so i'm happy I think we had some hard struggles, like finding a third interviewer but other than the struggles this project was rather exciting. I think me and my team did a great job and in my opinion I would put myself in second place in the class. This was a great project and i'm glad it did it.

Real World Report

The article is about scientists and astrologists finding water vapor on an exoplanet. Astrologists have found water vapor and clear skies in a exoplanet which may mean life forms can exist on other places than earth. This planet was 3 times bigger than earth. The planet is the size of Neptune and is called alien planet HAT-P-11b. This was an exciting discovery for scientists and they will keep working on uncovering the secrets of alien planet HAT-P-11b.


I think this is exciting for everyone. If there is even one organism in this planet it would be awesome. This planet looks like the best one to have any kind of life forms on it. I hope some day they could send a space shuttle to the planet to explore the planet. I personally think we should send the shuttle now for it to reach there in thousands of years. I think this is a great discovery and Astrologists should keep looking for things like these.


We should all care becaus ehis could mean so many possibilities. We could finally find new life forms, we could also make a new statement to discribe a living thing. Also if this planet is ever going to get destroyed then new habitibal planets are our last resort. This could change the theory of all llife if the life on alien planet HAT-P-11b is different from life on earth. Lastly we can all learn about new elements found in the planet that arent found on earth.
  

Lessons Learned

The most interesting part about this project is probably the interviewing itself. This part is interesting because you get to learn something about the person even if you already know about them. But it is also pretty hard because you have to make sure the shot is perfect before you shoot anything. Another thing is editing. Editing is fun and exciting because your piecing together your artwork into one single, and beautiful piece. Plus it is really funny to see the bloopers that the camera recorded while filming.

The biggest road block our team handled were mostly small ones but there was one big problem. We had to import the interview by Tuesday morning but that meant we had to film on Monday. We were originally going to do my dad but he said he was busy at the last minute so I had to think of someone that contributed to my sister's science fair and was available. Then it struck me why don't I do the interview on someone who gave Ritikaa the idea of her science fair project, her ninth grade science teacher.

The most valuable part of our science fair project is the way you bring people into the story. This is the way you keep someone from switching the channel. You need to make the story visuals and audio COMPLETELY perfect. The visuals need to be clear bright and amazing. The audio need to be flowing flawlessly without any stuttering. The story need to make you fell attached to the story emotionally and has to make sense.  

Hiki No Behind The Scenes

Our story is about my sister Ritikaa Kumar. She was the only contributor in her school last year for her science fair. Her science fair project was about testing streams around kauai for pesticides. This got her tenth place in the district science fair. What my sister did to accomplish her goals and her struggles that she faced to attend the science fair.

When the camera is not at work it turns into a more intense work time. This is because behind the scenes we have to do things like transcribe, edit, fill out forms like the pitch sheet and the writing tools template. This part is also hard mostly because of the transcribing. For the transcribing we have to write down word for word what the interviewee is doing. The editing is hard because it has to be as clear as possible with out cutting out the crucial parts.

One thing I should do to make my team better is include everyone and give a job to everyone in our team. Two of us in our team were the only ones working while the other one didn't have anything to do. So to solve this problem we came up with a solution, since we all did our parts in the interview that one left out person will do the voiceover. We will also show him our finished work to see if he says it looks fine. Other than this our team is perfectly hard working, cooperative, responsible and we dont argue.

The Expirement

In class we did a photoshop expirement. This expirement was about exploring photoshop. We could do anything we want in photoshop to blog about. It was fun but difficult to figure out what I do.

The oh so right thing about this experiment is we had no rules. This meant we could make anything we wanted. I really liked this idea but I never was let to do something like this so it was hard figuring out what to do. Finally I decided to do the symbol of Hulk. I would of put something cooler if I didn't do at the last minute. There was nothing oh so wrong about this.

Back To School

My favorite moment so far is the that our math teacher is awesome. Mr. Hewitt is our math teacher, he is a good teacher because he teaches in a fun way. But it's too bad that hes going away to canada to live with someone else. Another thing is that i'm making lots of new friends. some of them are sixth graders and some of them are seventh and some of them are eighth.

My biggest challenge right now is the fact that most of my classes are super boring. P1, P2, P5, P6, and P7 are all boring. I have a good feeling that the classes are going to become better. My teachers are telling me that since some classes have 40 kids each. I didn't like that idea I am hoping I would be one of those kids who didn't change classes. I was just getting used to all my teacher and now
I, might have to change classes.

 In order to succeed this year I will pay attention and be more interested in my classes. Last year the classes that were boring, were the classes I had were the times I talked the most, so this year i am going to care about the classes no matter how boring it is. Mr. Nunn our sixth grade AVID and Language Arts teacher says that seventh grade is the time when the student's grades drop dramaticly. It means that if you had straight A's there was a chance in seventh grade you could get one A and rest all B's or C's. 

Metamorphosis Animation

Our class had to do a animation project where we combine all types of animations to tell a story on metamorphosis. My teams main idea was a wizard that had to go to a wedding but on the way there he had to go through a forest where meets challenges. The wizard's challenges were dangerous creature like a dragon and a lion. 85% of the animation was made in stykz, the other 15% was stopmotion, claymation, and flip book animation. We spent tons of precious time on stykz but it payed of because the stykz scenes looked amazing.

If I were to explain the story scene by scene here's how it would go. The first scene was wizard which was going to his wedding but he got picked up by two fingers by the head and got put in this portal        (flip book animation) which took him to the stykz world. after he gets up and runs out of the screen. Then he sees a lion which he turns into a clay ball. After he walks into the next screen a dragon appears which he defeats also. Finally he goes to the wedding after magically putting himself in a wedding outfit.

Our team would of done amazing if only we put the music in the background. This made our video critique have low scores.