Cookout Day

      In the few weeks we worked on the solar cooker project I learned many things. I learned how to work better with a group and also divide the work evenly. I also learned how to engineer something that would help people who can't afford or even have access to a microwave or oven. Helping people who can't cook with the modern technologies we have today was a fun thing to do and I think I learned more than I thought I would out of the project. Because we had the chance to do a hands on activity retaining to light and heat I feel that it made the lessons we learned have more of a impact. For the next class that does this project I recommend you take time to actually try to built a solar cooker and apply what you learned from the videos and lessons from Mr. Weiss. I think doing that will make the project go along easier and will create a fun project rather than one where you would constantly struggle to reach a certain temperature. If I were to change my solar cooker type I would try to make a parabolic cooker, they take more time to construct but they also reached a higher temperature than the one I used. If I used a parabolic it would also have a affect on the food I could cook based on the way the food is cooked and what temperature it would reach.