Egg drop experiment went great! The support of other students and the faculty was exceptional. This experiment reinforced several of the engineering concepts taught during this school semester. Charlie's design concept was a good one and I think would have worked given a few more chances for modifications.

Charlie was able to correctly complete some practice scenarios in class. He identified the correct bridge style to use in each case study.

Charlie enjoyed an exercise that was done in class to make design decisions based on prescibed scenarios for various buildings.

Charlie easily grasped the functions of the various control surfaces and the effect they have on the control of an aircraft.

Charlie understood the basic forces at work during flight of an airplane. He is excited to apply what he has learned about engineering in order to be successful in the egg drop experiment.

Charlie is a nice kid.

Charlie got an 80 on the Quiz today (2 wrong out of 10).
He was very willing to participate in the building of a Lego contraption that would spin a top and launch it.

Charlie eagerly participated in this review session. He seems to have a lot of knowledge of firearms.

Charlie was eager to operate the water wheel and assemble 2 other devices from legos. He operated them and was able to explain the engineering principles found in the devices.

Charlie was already familiar with several of the parts of the machine gun and I was suprised to hear he had fired one. He was interested to learn why there is less recoil in a machine gun compared to a conventional gun.