Hovercraft Interview Questions

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My love of all things science and technology started at a young age. I remember the first pieces of technology I fell in love with. They were the heavily programmed jets, helicopters, missiles and turbines inside the Prima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona. The science and technology encased inside the hangars was thought provoking.
Although I was young when I ventured through the museum, curiosity overwhelmed me, leading me to ask myself “Why do these things work?”. It was that simple question that would lead me to the world of experimenting. I like to ask questions and delve deep into others, but more importantly, I like to answer questions. Questions in which I must create a hypothetical answer and then prove my answer through experimentation. …show more content…

It was a simple design; it had two propellers, six sensors, a sufficient power source, and an arduino board. It took me and a group of three other students a series of trial and error to make it work. My role was to write the code that would link the arduino board, propellers, and sensors and make it hover. The others created a design but I completely redesigned it, describing to my classmates why it was more effective than their design, but it was still not perfect. Unfortunately, time had run out and I was unable to do so, I did, however, bombard my teacher with a series of questions asking how the design could have been better and even asked if I could take hovercraft home to perfect it - I could not. Building a hovercraft made me love science and technology even more so than I already did. I loved the entire experience of trial and error and trying to understand why the hovercraft worked or why it did not. Even though the design was not perfect, like I wanted it to be, I was proud of our work. I was proud of it because we made a piece of science and technology work how it was supposed to. It made me want to experiment more with science and technology. The process of designing and programming hovercraft made me want to deepen my understanding of science and technology through the furthering of my

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