The Plan

The Plan 

       One thing i almost forgot was that to make some thing good you would need a good plan to execute so I am going to have to have a plan of: What materials I will have to use, what kinds of parts (loops, big hills, small hills, turns etc.) I will have to use to make my roller coaster. Right now the plan is in development but probably next blog post ill have a more developed and solid plan with all the materials that I will use and even maybe a preview of the blueprint for it (no promises).  

Monthly Checkup #3

Monthly Checkup #3

               I am looking forward about a month to march break to start getting work done  on my roller coaster. I am going to go the store to buy some supplies and then ill start to get some work done on it so then I can move forward to complete the project in a couple months and then present it to the people in my school. I think that it will go well and the roller coaster will be able to operate well but until then I will plan to get some materials  

                

Getting Started On The Project

                                  Getting Started On The Project                                     

 

                             Now that I have done quite a bit of  research done I am moving on to the project that I will be doing and hopefully get it finished by June this year. I am still not completely sure what materials I shall use but I will inform you about those things in my next blog and even vlog. It will probably be an uphill struggle in order to build the roller coaster but when I do, it will be very cool and I will be proud of myself accomplishing something as much expertise needed to do. I was thinking of using basic materials like cardboard and paper. Anyway, that is about it for my first blog post. 

  

Economies

Economies

               Besides the topics I had planned to research on, I was thinking and I thought about economies and how they are affected by rollercoasters. So I did a little bit of research and it is quite true since roller coasters are part of amusement parks which known as tourist attractions. Tourist attractions could be an aquariums, zoos or museums. The money accumulated from tourist attractions goes to the government which helps the economies along with taxes and other things. This money goes to things that the city needs like health care and schools. So if a lot of people would pay to go on roller coaster, A fraction of the money goes to the govenment to help it thrive.     

 

          

Monthly Checkup #2

Monthly Checkup #2

         Hello again, I have done some more research and I will be telling you about the History, Science and Architecture. In the last period of time I had been researching  architecture and have learned that very experienced architects are needed to make a roller coasters with a lot of time planning. Here are some other thing I had learned. For the history of roller coasters, they did not start out like the ones we see today but rather as Russian ice slides in the 17th century. France had picked up on this to except that they had built actual roller coasters made of wood. Then over the years, People started to make roller coasters bigger, faster and stronger which had led to gigantic speedy roller coasters. For science, roller coasters usually rely on physics  to make it work. the most important force for the roller coaster is gravity. Gravity is what pushes the roller coaster down and back up a hill which is crucial. Finally for architecture, the pieces of a roller coaster are usually built in a different country and the shipped to then be built. Those are some things I learned.
        

                                                                                  

Monthly Vlog #1

Monthly Checkup #1

Monthly Checkup #1

             Hello again,  I am back and this is my first monthly post to inform you what I have been doing lately. As you know if you read my last post, I am going to do a series of events involving roller coasters. Also my monthly posts are not really monthly because I will be releasing 2 of these a month until June. So now that is out of the way, ill tell you what I have been up to in terms of my roller coaster project. First I have been doing quite a bit of research on the history of a roller coaster and covered quite a bit of information. If you want to know a bit about the history of roller coasters you can go to  www.aceonline.org and they have bit about roller coasters and other things. I have looked at the science too and it is pretty interesting when you think about it.  Like for the history, I will also giving my source and you should defiantly check it out too. The source of the science is  http://science.howstuffworks.com  and has other things with science. Next monthly checkup, I will research the architecture of roller coasters and tell you the information that I learned. Anyway for now this will be it.