EPICS Klondike Elementary School

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EPICSKlondike Elementary School

• Mid Semester Presentation
• Spring 2003
• Four Seasons Project
• Quiz Bowl Project
• Solar Car Project
• Spell Bowl Simulator Project
• Stoplight Project

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KES Four Seasons

• Team Members
• Scott Foreman
• Tyler Ramey
• Scott Roper

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Introduction

• Four Seasons has two components
• A model of the Earth-Sun system to illustrate the
  changing of the seasons
• A student workbook to go along with the display

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The Model
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Accomplishments

• Began testing of record and playback system.
• Began design of new globe power system.

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Semester Goals

• Design amplifier for voice circuit.
• Redesign playback control.
• Assemble four voice circuits.
• Finalize slip ring design.
• Rebuild motor control circuit.
• Improve workbook.

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Slip Ring Design
Brushes
Slip rings easily fit over existing design.
Rings
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KES Quizbowl
Quizbowl

• Project Partner Klondike Elementary School
• Team Members
• Steven Llewellyn
• Joshua Pruitt

Purpose To create an educational device which
will encourage healthy competition while learning.
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Mid-semesterProgress

• Quizbowl Progress
• Wireless aspects of project working.
• Ordered necessary parts for TX and RX circuits.
• Modified PLD code for new parts.
• Designed, built and tested 555 transmitter
  circuit and LM567 phase lock loop receiver
  circuit.

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How Does it Work?

• Children buzz in using push button switch.
• 555 timer circuit changes frequency, TX sends
  this change in frequency.
• RX picks up this change in frequency, sends it to
  an LM567 phase lock loop.
• LM567 sends a high to 22V10 PLD.
• PLD activates lighting through 5 to 12 Volt
  comparator.
• If no children buzz in within allotted time,
  buzzer goes off.

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KES Epics TeamSolar Car

• By Keith Gossman
• Mike Hsiu

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Introduction

• The Solar Car project consists of
• 1. an educational packet
• 2. a hands-on demonstration tool
• of energy conversion for the science curriculum
  of Klondike Elementary School.

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Design Process
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What was done
Back Wheel
Back Wheel
Back Wheel
Motor
Motor
Switch
Motor
Switch
Switch
RC/ESC
RC/ESC
RC/ESC
Receiver
Receiver
Receiver
Controller
Steering Servo
Controller
Steering Servo
Front Wheel
Controller
Steering Servo
Front Wheel
Front Wheel
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Thing to do this Semester

• Work on the Educational Package
• Approximately 8 10 pages
• Mainly focus on 5th Grade science class
• Focus on Energy Conversion/ Indiana Academic
  Standards
• Replace Solar Cells with a Solar Panel
• Make sure everything works and prepare for
  delivery
• Deliver the Project

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KES Solar Car Project Timeline for Spring 2003
?Begin Educational Workbook
? Purchase Solar Panels

• Workbook Draft

?Put Solar Panel on Car
?Finish Workbook
?Deliver Project

• Services

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Spell Bowl Simulator

• Team members
• Richard Charts
• Philip Minar

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Spell Bowl

• Spelling competition in which students write down
  the spellings after they are spoken and used in
  context.
• The competition consists of 8 rounds of 7 words.
• KES competes at grade levels 4-5 with teams of
  8-10 students.
• Our goal is to help students prepare for the
  annual competition.

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The Spell Bowl Simulator

• A web based Java applet.
• Plays an audio file of the word and accompanying
  sentence.
• Student inputs spelling.
• Student spelling versus correct spelling
  displayed immediately.
• Total results displayed at end of 8th round.

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Whats Done?

• GUI
• Sound
• Single Game Statistics

Whats Next?

• TTS software integration
• Extended Statistics
• Improved GUI

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Stoplight

• Team Members
• Karl Scheel
• Abbas Taher
• Sriharsha Vangapaty

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What It Does

• Basic idea is to control students noise in
  cafeteria.
• Takes noise inputs through a microphone, sends it
  the microprocessor and it determines if its too
  noisy.
• Lights changes based on the noise level.

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Whats next for this semester

• Currently software part of the project is
  completed.
• Need to finish manual override.
• Need to put on finishing touches.

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Questions